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THE
VIRGINIA MAGAZINE
OF
HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.
Published Quaxiterly by
THE VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1913.
VOUUIVIE XXf,
Richmond, Va.
HOUSE OF THE SOCIETY,
No. 707 East Franklin St.
Reprinted with the permission of the original publisher
KRAUS REPRINT CORPORATION
New York
1968
PUBLICATION COMMITTEE.
ARCHER ANDERSON,
C. V. MEREDITH,
E. V. VALENTINE,
Rev. W. MEADE CLARK.
Editor of the
WILLIAM G. STANARD.
Reprinted in U.S.A.
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Table of Contents O.
Book Reviews 110, 221, 334, 445 Y^
O*
Council and General Court Minutes 1622-1629. From the Originals
in the Library of Congress. Copied and Contributed by
Lothrop Withington 45, 136, 281
Council Papers 1698-1700. From the Originals in the Virginia
State Library 67, 163, 254, 384
Genealogy: Beverley 97, 212, 305
Boiling 310, 422
Brent 96
Empereour 417
Eppes 218
Poindexter 102, 214, 314
Rolfe 105, 208
Slaughter 306, 427
Turner 106, 211, 315, 421
Henry County Marriage License Bonds 1770-1800. Contributed
by Col. b. B. Bryant 277
Historical and Genealogical Notes and Queries 81, 193, 317, 431
Illustrations: Boiling Hall, Yorskshire, England 310a
Heacham Church 98a
Heacham Hall 98a
Pocahontas, from the original portrait 20Sa
Portrait of Robert James Brent 96a
Smith's Fort House, Exterior and interior views .. 208a
Smith's Fort, Remains of Earthworks at 210a
Smith's Fort, View from Bluff at 210a
Ludwell, Philip, Inventory of Estate, 1707. From the original in
the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society 395
Massie, Major Thomas, Revolutionary Pension Declaration 184
Randolph Manuscript, Virginia Seventeenth Century Records.
From the Original in the Collection of the Virginia Historical
Society 1. 113, 225,347
IV TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Revolutionary Army Orders for the Main Army under Washington.
From the Originals in the Collection of the Virginia Histori-
cal Society 24, 155, 293, 377
Revolutionary Pension Declarations, from Augusta County, Va.
Contributed by Judge Lyman Chalkley 8
Sussex County Wills, 1754-1804 (M-P). Contributed by W. B.
Cridlin 269
Virginia Gleanings in England, (Wills, &c.,) by Lothrop Withing-
ton 153, 249, 372
Virginia's Soldiers in the Revolution. A Bibliography, by C. A.
Flagg and W. O. Waters 337
Virginia in 16G6-1667. From English Public Records 33
Virginia in 1667-1G76. From English Public Records 122
Virginia in 1676-1677. From English Public Records 234
Virginia in 1677. From English Public Records 359
Virginia Historical Society, List of Officers and Members, January,
1913. January Magazine.
Virginia Historical Society, Proceedings of Annual Meeting, Feb-
ruary 15, 1913. April Magazine.
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VIRGINIA MAGAZINE
OF
HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.
Published Quarterly by
THE VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1913.
VOLUME XXI.
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HOUvSE OF THE SOCIETY,
No. 707 East Franklin St.
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Virginia Magazine
OF
HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.
Vol. XXI. JANUARY, 1913. No. 1
THE RANDOLPH MANUSCRIPT.
Virginia Seventeenth Century Records.
From the Original in the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society
Commission and Instructions to the Earl of Orkney
FOR the Government of Virginia.
(Continued.)
And We do hereby require and Command all Officers &
Ministers Civil & Military, and all other Inhabitants of our
said Colony & Dominion to be obedient aiding & assisting unto
you the said George Earl of Orkney in the Execution of this
our Commission, and of the Powers & Authioities herein con-
tain'd, & in Case of your Death or Absence out of our said
Colony to be obedient aiding & Assisting unto such person as
shall be appointed by us to be our Lieut Govemour or Com-
mander in Chief of our said Colony To whom we do therefore
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by these Presents Give & Grant all & Singular the Powers &
Authorities herein granted to be by hiro Executed & Enjoy'd
during our Pleasure, or untill your Arrival within our said
Colony — If upon your Death or Absence out of our said Col-
ony there be no Person upon the Place commissionated or
appointed by us to be our Lieut Governor or Commander in
Chief of the said Colony Our Will and Pleasure is, That the
Eldest Councellor whose Name is first Plac'd in our said In-
structions to you, and who shall be at the time of your Death
or Absence, residing within our said Colony & Dominion of
Virginia, shall take upon him the Administration of the Gov-
ernment, and Execute our said Commission & Instructions,
And the Several Powers & Authorities therein Contained,
in the Same Manner, And to all Intents & Purposes as other
our Governor or Commander in Chief shou'd or ought to do
in Case of your Absence imtil your Return, or in all Cases
untni our further Pleasure be known therein, And We do
hereby declare, Ordain, and Appoint that You the said George
Earl of Orkney, shall and may hold. Execute & Enjoy, the Office
and Place of our Lieut & Governor General of otir said Col-
ony & Dominion with all its Rights Members & Appurtenan-
ces whatsoever together with all & Singular the Powers
& Authoritys hereby Granted tmto you, for & during our Will
& Pleastire, Lastly we have revoked Determin'd & made Void
And by these Presents do revoke Determine & make Void
certain Letters Patents Granted by her late Majesty Queen
Anne imto you the said George Earl of Orkney for the Gov-
ernment of our said Colony & Dominion of Virginia under the
Great Seal of Great Britain bearing Date at Westminster
the day of in the Year of her said
late Majesty's Reign And every Clause, Article & thing there-
in Contain'd, In Witness whereof we have caused these our
Letters to be made Patents.
Witness Our Self at Westminster the day of
in the first Year of oiu- Reign.
And for so doing this shall be yovir Warrant Given at our
Court at St. James the 15th day of January 1714 in the first
Year of our Reiga.
THB RANDOLPH MANUSCRIPT. 3
By his Majesty's Command,
James Stanhope.
To our Attorney or
Solicitor Generall
A True Coppy from Books of the R*" Hon"'^ the Lord
Carteret's Office. Whitehall 28 April 1722
Danl Preveran.
instructions for our right trusty & RIGHT
WELL BELOVED COUSIN GEORGE EARL OF ORKNEY
OUR LIEUTENANT & GOVERNOR GENERAL OF OUR
COLONY & DOMINION OF VIRGINIA IN AMERICA.
GEORGE R. * J ,.. *^ , r .
And m his Absence to the Lieutenant Gover-
nor or Commander in Chief of our said Colony
for the time being, Given at our Court at St
James's the 15th day of April 1715 in the first
Year of our Reign.
1. With these our Instructions you will receive our Com-
mission under our Great Seal of Great Britain, Constituting
you our Lieutenant & Govemour General of our Colony &
Dominion of Virginia in America.
2. You are therefore to fit your self with all convenient speed
& to repair to our said Colony of Virginia, And being there
Arriv'd, You are to take upon you the Execution of the Place
& Trust we have repos'd in You. And forthwith to Call to-
gether the Members of Our Coimcil for Our Colony and Do-
minion, by Name, Viz. Edmund Jennings, Robt. Carter,
James Blair, Phillip Ludwell, John Lewis, WiUiam Byrd, Will-
iam Basset, Nat Harrison, Mann Page, Dudley Digges, Peter
Beverley and John Robinson Esq*"*'
3. And You are with due and Usual Solemnity to Cause
our said Commission under our great Seal of Great Britain
Constituting You our Lieutenant and Governor General of
our said Colony & Dominion, to be read and Publish'd at the
said meeting of our Council.
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4. Which being done you shall yourself take — and also Ad-
minister unto each of the Members of Our Councill, As well
the Oaths Appointed by Act of Parliament to be taken instead
of the Oaths of Allegiance & Supremacy, And the Oath men-
tion'd in an Act pass'd in the Sixth Year of her late Majesty's
Reign Entituled An Act for the Security of her Majesty's
Person and Government and of the Succession to the Crown
of Great Britain in the Protestant Line, as also to make and
Subscribe, & cause the Members of otur Council to make and
Subscribe the Declaration Mentioned in our Act of Parlia-
ment made in the 25tb Year of the Reign of King Charles the
Second, Entituled, an Act for Preventing Dangers which may
happen from Popish Recusants, And you and every of them
are likewise to take an Oath for the due Execution of Your and
their Places and Trusts, as well with regard to your and their
equal and Impartial Administration of Justice, and you are
also to take the Oath required to be taken by Governors of
Plantations to do their Utmost that the Laws relating to the
Plantations be observ'd.
5. You are forthwith to Communicate unto our said Coun-
cil Such & so many of these our Instructions wherein their
Advice and Consent are Mention 'd to be requisite, as likewise
all such others from time to time as you shall find Convenient
for our Ser\dce to be imparted to them.
6. You are to permit the Members of our Said Council of
Virginia, to have and enjoy freedom of Debate, and Vote in
all Affairs of Publick Concern, that may be Debated in Council.
7. And also by our Commission aforesaid, we have thought
fitt to direct that any three of our Councelors make a Quorum,
It is Nevertheless Our Will and Pleasure that you do not Act
without a Quorum of less than five Members unless upon Ex-
traordinary Emergencies when a greater Number cannot be
conveniently had..
8. And that we may be always informed of the Names &
Characters of Persons fit to Supply the Vacancies that shall
happen in Our said Council, You are to transmit unto us by
one of our Principal Secretarys of State And to Otu- Commis-
sioners for Trade and Plantations with all Convenient Speed
THE RANDOLPH MANUSCRIPT. 5
the Names and Characters of Twelve Persons Inhabitants of
our said Colony, whom you shall esteem the best qualifi'd
for that Trust, and so from time to time when any of them
shall d^^e, depart out of our said Colony, or become otherwise
vmfit. You are to Nominate so many others in their Stead,
that the list of twelve Persons fit to Supply the said Vacancys
may be always Compleat.
9. You are from time to time to send unto us as aforesaid
& to our Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, the Name
or Names and Quality's of any Member or Members by you
put into otu- said Council, by the first Conveniency after
your so doing.
10. And in the Choice and Nomination of the Members
of our said Council, as also of the Chief Officers, Judges, Assis-
tants, Justices and Sheriffs, You are always to take Care that
they be Men of good Life & well Affected to oiir Government,
and of Good Estates, and Abilities, and not Necessitous People,
or much in debt.
11. You are neither to Augment nor diminish the Ntunber
of our said Coimcil as it is hereby Established, Nor to Suspend
any of the Members thereof without good and Sufficient Cause
nor without the Consent and Majority of the said Council,
And in case of Suspension of any. You are to Cause your Rea-
sons for so doing, together with the Charges and Proofs, against
the said Persons, and their Answer thereunto, (Unless you
have some Extraordinary Reason to the Contrary) to be duly
enter'd upon the Council Books, And you are forthwith to
transmit the same together with your Reasons for not Entring
them upon the Council Books (in Case you do not Enter
them) tmto us,, And to our Commissioners for Trade and Plan-
tations as aforesaid.
12. You are to Signify otu- Pleasure unto the Members
of our said Council, that if any of them shall hereafter absent
themselves from otir said Colony, and continue absent above
the Space of Twelve Months together without leave from you,
or from the Commander in Chief for the time being, first Ob-
tain'd or shall remain absent for the Space of Two Years or the
greater Part thereof Successively without our Leave given them
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tmder our Royal Sign Manual their Place or Places in our
said Council shall immediately thereupon become Void, &
that we will forthwith appoint others in their Stead.
13. And whereas we Subscribe that Effectual care ought to
be taken to Oblige the Members of Our said Cotmcil to a due
Attendance therein, in order to prevent the many Inconve-
niences that may happen from the Want of a Quorum of the
Coimcil to Transact Business as Occasion may require IT IS
OUR WILL AND PLEASURE that if any of the Members of
the said Council shall hereafter Wilfully absent themselves when
duly Summon'd without a just and Lawfull Cause, And shall
persist therein after Admonition, You Suspend the said Coim-
cellors so absenting them till Our further Pleasure be known,
Giving us timely Notice thereof. And We hereby Will and re-
quire you that this our Royall Pleasure be Signify'd to the
Several Members of oiu: Coimcil aforesaid, and that it be en-
ter'd in the Coimcil Book of our said Colony as a standing
Rule.
14. You are to observe in the Passing of Laws that the Stile
of Enacting the Same be by the Governor Council & Assembly
and no other. You are as much as Possible to Observe in the
Passing of all Laws that whatever may be requisite upon each
different Matter be accordingly provided for by a different
Law without intermixing in One & the Same Act such things
as have no Proper relation to each other. And You are more
Especially to take Care that no Clause or Clauses be Inserted
in or Annext to any Act which shall be foreign to what the
Title of such respective Act imports, & that no perpetual
Clause be Part of any Temporary Law, and that no Act what-
ever be Suspended, Alter'd, Reviv'd, Confirm'd or Repeal'd
by General Words but that the Title & Date of such Act so
Suspended, Alter'd, Reviv'd Confirm'd or Repealed be Par-
ticularly Mention'd & Expressed.
15. You are also to take Care that no Private Act be pass 'd
in which there is not a Saving Us Our Heirs & Successors all
Bodys Politick or Corporate & of all other Persons except
such as are mention'd in the Act.
THB RANDOLPH MANUSCRIPT. 7
16. And Whereas great Mischief may Arise by Passing Bills
of an Unusual & Extraordinary Nature & Importance in the
Plantations which Bill remain in force there from the time of
Enacting untill Our Pleasure be Signify'd to the Contrary,
We do hereby Will and Require you not to Pass or give Your
Consent hereafter to any Bill or Bills in the Assembly of our
said Colony of vmusual and Extraordinary Natiu-e & Im-
portance, Wherein our Prerogative or property of our Subjects
may be prejudiced, without having either first Transmitted
to us the Draught of such a Bill or Bills and ovu- having Signi-
mfy'd our Royal Pleasure or that you take Care in the Passing
of any Act of unusual and Extraordinary Nature that there
be a Clause inserted therein Suspending and deferring the Exe-
cution thereof Untill our further Pleasure be known concerning
the said Act to the End ovir Prerogative may not Suffer & that
Our Subjects may not have reason to complain of hardships
put upon them on the like Occasions.
17. You are to transmit Authentick Copies of all Laws
Statutes and Ordinances that are now made and in force which
have not yet been sent, or which at any time hereafter shall be
made or Enacted within our said Colony each of them Seper-
ately imder the Publick Seal unto Us & to our Commissioners
for Trade & Plantations within three Months or by the first
Opportunity after their being Enacted together with — Du-
plicates thereof by the next Conveyance upon Pain of our
highest displeasure and of the forfeit of that Years Salary
Wherein you shall at any time upon any Pretence Whatsoever
omit to send over the said Laws Statutes & Ordinances afore-
said within the time above limitted as also of such other Pen-
alty as we shall Please to inflict But if it shall happen that
during the time of War No shipping shall come from our said
Colony within three Months after the Making such Laws
Statutes and Ordinances whereby the same may be transmit-
ted as aforesaid then the said Laws Statutes & Ordinances are
to be transmitted as aforesaid by the next conveyance after
the making thereof whenever it may happen for our Appro-
bation or disallowance of the same
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18. And Our further Will and Pleasure is That in every Act
which shall be transmitted there be the Several Dates & Re-
spective times when the Same Pass'd the Assembly The Council
and receiv'd your Assent, And you are to be as Particular as
may be in your Observations to be sent to our Commissioners
for Trade & Plantations upon every Act, that is to say whether
the same is Introductive of a New Law Declaratory of a for-
mer Law, or does repeal a Law then before in being and you are
likewise to send to our said Commissioners the Reasons for
the Passing of such Law unless the same do fully appear in
the Preamble of the said Act.
19. And Whereas it hath been represented that the Taxes
which have been levied by Poll within our said Colony have
been heavy and burthensome tmto our Subjects there, You are
to recommend to the General Assembly the Consideration
and Settling such a way for raising Money upon Necessary
Occasions as shall be more equal and Acceptable to our sub-
jects there than the Method of Levying by Poll and Titheables.
(to be continued.)
REVOLUTIONARY PENSION DECLARATIONS.
From the Records of Augusta County, Va.
Contributed by Judge Lyman Chalkley
Samuel Bell.
On motion of Joseph Bell and Sarah Bell, two of the legatees
of Samuel Bell, dec'd, it is ordered to be certified to the execu-
tive of this Com'th and to the Register of the land office that
it appears to the satisfaction of this court on the evidence of
the said Joseph Bell and Smith Thompson, That the said Sam-
uel Bell dec'd entered the Virginia line on Continental estab-
lishment on the 8th March 1777 as an ensign in Captain Mc-
Guire's company attached to the i6th Regt. commanded by
Col. Wm. Grayson ; that he was afterwards attached to Cap.
Thomas Bell's Co. in the same regt. was at the battle of
REVOLUTIONARY PENSION DECLARATIONS. 9
Brandywine, Germantown, Guilford C. H. and last at the
battle of Hot Water in which he was wounded in eight or
nine places and taken prisoner. Was afterwards taken to
Williamsburg by the enemy and paroled and continued in the
army to the end of the war as an supernumerary officer ; that he
died in Staunton in 1788 having first made his last will and
testament bearing date 23 Sep. 1782 and duly recorded in the
clerk's office of said court, leaving the said Joseph Bell, Sarah
Bell, Thomas Bell and Jolin Bell, his legatees.
That the said Thomas Bell died in the county of Albemarle
having first made his last will and testament bearing date 9
May 1797, recorded in Albemarle, leaving William Love Robert
Washington Bell, Sally Jefferson Bell, and Wm. Wells his lega-
tees.
That the said John Bell died in County of Augusta leaving
a will dated 11 Feb'y 1797, recorded in Augusta leaving said
Joseph Bell residuary Legatee.
(Order Book 39, April 28, 1823.)
Joseph Bell.
Virginia, Augusta County, towit :
On this 30th day of August 1832 personally appeared in
open court before the justice of the Augusta County Court
now setting (Maj.) Jos. Bell a resident of the County and
State aforesaid, aged about seventy seven years who being first
duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the follow-
ing declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of
Congress passed the 7th day of June 1832.
That he was born in Augusta County and State of Virginia
in the month of February 1755 as he has always understood
and believes ; that there is no record of his age known to him,
that he has always resided and still resides on the farm where
he was born in the said County of Augusta.
That as one of the militia of Augusta County he was drafted
for the protection of the western frontier from the Indians;
that he rendezvoused at Lexington in the County of Rocking-
ham about the 15th July, 1776 and was attached to the Com-
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pany under the command of Captain John Lyle and marched
to Holston River under Colonel Russell ; from thence he march-
ed to the Great Island of Holston River and was there placed
under the command of Col. William Christian ; from thence he
marched to the Cherokee Towns south west of the Tennessee
River and was stationed there for some time and returned
home about the middle of December 1776, being absent in the
service about five months — that he received no written dis-
charge that he knows of no one living at this time, except
Major Williarriv Willson of said County of Augusta by whom
he can prove the service above set forth, that the said Willson
was with him on the said tour of duty.
He was drafted as one of the Militia of Augusta County
for a second tour of duty and rendezvoused at Staunton in
Augusta County & State of Virginia on the 22d day of Sep-
tember 1777 and was placed under the command of Captain
Thomas Smith of the Augusta Militia, and he was elected as
first sergeant of the Company, in which capacity he served
during the said tour of duty — from Staunton he marched to
the Little Levels in the County of Greenbrier in the State of
Virginia at which point they were joined by other troops under
the commands of Col's Dickenson, Samuel McDowell and Geo.
Skeleron. From the little levels, they marched to the mouth
of the Great Kanawha river (Point Pleasant) to join the army
under the command of Gen'l Hand, after having remained for
some time there the Army was drawn up, and Col. Sam'l Mc-
Dowell rode along the lines and proclaimed that Gen'l Burgoine
the commander of the British Army had surrendered the Army
under his command as prisoners of war, and the troops were
discharged, and the said applicant reached home with other
men from Augusta County about the second week in December
1777 after an absence in the service of about two months and
three weeks — that he received no written discharge — that he
has no knowldge at this time of any person living by whom he
could prove this tour of duty.
That he was ordered out on a third tour of duty by Col.
Sampson Mathews, the commandant of the Augusta Militia
REVOLUTIONARY PENSION DECLARATIONS. 11
for the protection of the Western Frontier from the murders
of the Indians, that he rendezvoused at Staunton in the County
of Augusta & State of Virginia on the i6th day of April 1779
and was placed under the command of Capt. James Trimble of
the Augusta Militia, that applicant was appointed orderly ser-
geant of the company and in that capacity served during that
tour of duty, that they marched from Staunton to Tigers
Valley in he State of Virginia and from thence to the head
waters of Jackson's River in the State of Virginia, that after
his tour of duty which was for three months expired, he re-
turned home having received no written discharge nor is there
any person now living that he knows of whose testimony he is
able to procure to prove his service on this his third tour of
duty.
That he was ordered out as one of the militia of Augusta
County and rendezvoused at Rockfish Gap in the County of
Augusta for the purpose of guarding the prisoners taken at
the battle of the Cowpens by Gen'l Morgan, from Rockfish Gap
he marched as one of the guard of said prisoners to the County
of Shenandoah, and from thence returned home being absent
in the service about 15 days.
His fifth and last service in the war of the Revolution was as
an Ensign in the Militia of Augusta County. He rendivouzed
with the troops called into service from Augusta County at
Col. Easoms (now Waynesboro in the County of Augusta) on
the 6th day of June 1781 — and marched from thence as an En-
sign in Cap. Francis Long's Company and joined the troops
under the command of Gen'l Lafayette at Col. Dandridge's in
the County of , that he acted with the Army under
the command of Gen'l Lafayette, was in the battles of Hot
Water, under the command of Col. Willis, was at the battle of
James Town under the command of Gen'l Wayne in July 1781,
that he continued with the army and marched to Yorktown
where he continued in his command as an Ensign until the sur-
render of Lord Cornwallis, shortly after which the troops were
discharged and he returned to his residence in Augusta County
having been absent in the service about five months — tliat his
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commission of Ensign was signed by Thomas Jefferson while
Governor of Virginia, that he remembers when looking over
his papers some few years since to have seen it, but that on
looking for it lately he has not been able to find it and supposes
that it has been destroyed lost or mislaid.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension
or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not
on the pension roll of the agency of State.
William Davis one of the justices of the peace for Augusta
County deposed in open Court that he had known Joseph Bell
from about the period of the Revolutionary War to the present
time, having resided in the same neighborhood during that
time, the fact of his having served several tours of duty as one
of the militia of Augusta County was one of general notoriety,
that he has often heard it spoken of by men in the neighbor-
hood who was in the service with the said Bell, he remembers
particularly to have heard his brother James Davis (now de-
ceased) speak of having served three several tours of duty with
the said Bell and being one of his mess, that he knows the fact
that his brother James was absent from home in the service —
the said Davis father stated that he had always understood and
had no doubt but that the said Bell did hold a commission of
Ensign in the war of the Revolution and served in that capacity
as stated by him, that he was at the house of the said Bell some
few years since and the said Bell showed him his commission of
Ensign which was signed by Thomas Jefferson as Governor of
Virginia. That he believes the said Bell to be about yj years
of age. That the said Bell is a man in whose statements every
reliance may be placed.
Maj. William Willson of said County of Augusta also ap-
peared in open Court and deposed that he was well acquainted
with the said Joseph Bell in the war of the Revolution, that he
knows the fact that the said Joseph Bell did serve the tour of
duty under Capt. John Lyle as set forth in the said Bell's declara-
tion this day presented to the court and read in his presence, that
he said William was on the said tour of duty with the said Bell
which commenced in July 1776 and terminated in December
REVOLUTIONARY PBN6ION DECLARATIONS. 13
1776, that he heard of the said Bell's being out on other tours
of duty during the war of the Revolution and entertains no
doubt but that he was, that the said Bell is reputed and believed
in his neighborhood to have been a soldier and officer, that the
said Bell has always been regarded as a man of strict veracity
and from his knowledge of him and the character he has always
sustained he would rely upon any statement made by him, that
he believes the said Bell to be about yj years of age.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the
investigation, of the matter and after putting the interrogatories
prescribed by the War Department that the above named appli-
cant was a Revolutionary Soldier and officer and served as he
states, and the Court further certifies that they are personally
acquainted with the said Joseph Bell the applicant and William
Davis and William Willson whose testimony is above set forth ;
that they are all residents of the County of Augusta and State
of Virginia and highly respectable and credible and that their
statements are entitled to full credit.
Smith Thompson.
State of Virginia,
Augusta County towit :
On the 24th day of July 1820 personally appeared' in open
Court being a Court of record for said County Smith Thompson
aged about seventy-three years resident in the said County,
who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath
declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows : that
he enlisted in Staunton in Virginia on the loth day of July
1777 with Lieut. Robert Kirk of the Company of Captain Gran-
ville Smith; that he was then marched to White Marsh and
attached to the i6th regiment commanded by Colonel William
Grayson ; that he was in the battles of Monmouth Court House,
Stoney Point, Paulus Hook, and at the siege of Charleston
where he was captured, and that he was afterwards at the
battle of Guilford Court House, and the capture of Comwallis,
and that he was discharged in the month of June 1780. He is
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now unable from age and infirmity to follow his occupation
which is that of a weaver. He has already made a declaration
under the act of Congress passed on the i8th day of March
1818 which is dated the i6th of July 1819, his pension certificate
is dated day of October, 1819. He further swears that
he was a resident citizen of the United States on the i8th day
of March 181 8 and that he has not since that time by gift sale
or in any other manner disposed of his property or any part
thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring himself
within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled an act to
provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval ser-
vice of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on
the 1 8th day of March 1818; and that he has not nor has any
person in trust for him any property or securities contracts or
debts due to him nor has he any income other than what is
contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by him sub-
scribed. He further swears that the only members of his fam-
ily are his wife aged about forty-five years who is sickly and
infirm and unable to contribute materially towards the support
even of herself ; and a small servant girl about eight years old
belonging to John C. Sowers of said County.
Schedule.
One house and lot in the town of Staunton in which I reside
and of which about three hundred and fifteen dollars of the
purchase money remains unpaid, no part of which I am able
to pay.
Two walnut tables.
6 Windsor chairs.
6 leather bottom chairs (old).
2 Split bottom do.
I Loom and harness.
I Quill wheel and swifts.
I Clock.
I Cow and two calves.
I Old desk.
I Bible and some religious books.
Debts due me about ten dollars against which is to be set oflF
RBVOLUTIONART PENSION DECLARATIONS. 16
debts due by me besides the purchase money of the said house
and lot upwards of $100.00.
(Signed) Smith 1 hompson.
Sworn to and declared on the 24th day of July 1820 before
the said Court of Augusta County.
I, Erasmus Stribling, clerk of Augusta County Court do
hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto
annexed are truly copied from the records of said court and
I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that
the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the afore-
said schedule is seven hundred and seventy dollars. In this
estimate the house and lot are valued as encumbered with the
purchase money.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and af-
fixed the seal of the said Court on the day of July in
the year of our Lord 1820.
James Burnley.
State of Virginia,
Augusta County towit:
On this 29th day of August 1820 personally appeared in
open Court being a Court of record for said County, James
Burnley, aged about seventy years, resident in the said county,
who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath
declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows : that
he enlisted with Captain Moses Hawkins in Fluvanna Va., that
he marched under the said Captain to Middlebrook in New
Jersey, from thence to the White Plains and was engaged in
the battle of Brandywine in the fourteenth Virginia regiment
commanded by Colonel Lewis, and was afterwards engaged
at the siege of Mud Island, from whence he went to Valley
Forge where the army wintered, he afterwards fought in the
battle of Monmouth & was discharged by the Dr. General as
being incapable of service. He is now so infirm from age that
he is able to do but very little work, he has already made a
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declaration under the act of Congress passed on the i8th of
March 1818, the date of which declaration he does not recollect
his pension certificate is dated the seventh day of January 1819.
He further swears that he was a citizen of the United States
on the 1 8th day of March 1818 & that he has not since that time
by gift sale or in any other manner disposed of his property
or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to
bring himself within the provisions of an act" of Congress en-
titled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land
and naval service of the United States, in the revolutionary war
passed on the i8th day of March 1818 & that he has not nor
has any person in trust for him any property or securities con-
tracts or debts due to him nor has he any income other than
what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed & by him
subscribed. He further deposeth that the only members of his
family are himseilf and his wife who is about 50 years old, in
bad health and not able to do any work. He rents a small
house with a little lot containing less than a quarter of an acre.
His circumstances are so destitute as to require the assistance
of his Country for a support.
Schedule of the estate of the said James Burnley necessary
doathing and bedding excepted.
2 beds and furniture.
I set knives and forks.
I do spoons.
4 chairs.
I spade.
I mattock.
Shovel and tongs.
I pot rack.
3 pots.
I oven.
I frying pan.
I flesh fork.
$56.00.
REVOLUTIONARY PENSION DECLARATIONS. 17
Rent due against the same property $60.00 (7vhich cUl the
property is not worth the amount against the same).
W. B. COALTER.
August 24, 1820.
his
James X Burnley.
mark
William Francis.
Augusta County to wit :
On this 23 day of October 1820 personally appeared in open
Court being a Court of record for said County, William Fran-
cis, aged about eighty years, who being first duly sworn
according to law doth on his oath make the following declara-
tion in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of Con-
gress of the i8th of March 1818 and the first of May 1820,
That he the said William Francis enlisted for the term of three
years on the day of in the year 1776 in the
State of Virginia in the Company commanded by Capt'n
Thomas Bell in the regiment commanded by Col. Grayson in
the line of the State of Virginia on Continental establishment,
that he was in the battles of Brandywine, Germanown, Prince-
on, Trenton, and that he continued to serve in the said corps
until the day of ^779 when he was discharged
from the said service at the Valley Forge in the State of Penn-
sylvania, and that he has no other evidence now in his power
except his own oath. And in pursuance of the Act of the first
of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen
of the United States, on the i8th day of March 181 8, and that
I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other manner
disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent there-
by so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of
an Act of Congress entitled "an Act to provide for certain per-
sons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States
in the Revolutionary War" passed on the i8th day of March
one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ; and that I have not,
nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities,
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contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other
than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by
me subscribed ; that I am by occupation a farmer, but rendered
unable by age and infirmity to follow it; and that my wife
whose age I does not know is unable to contribute towards my
support, and my children who were able to work have left me.
Schedule of the property of William Francis.
1 oven, I pot, and skillet, $2.00
2 knives and forks, 2 tea cups and soucers, .25
2 chairs, .25
$2.50
his
William X Francis.
mark
Alexander Nelson.
Virginia, Augusta County, towit:
On this 23d day of August 1825 personally appeared in open
Court being a Court of record for the County aforesaid in the
said State of Virginia (having its proceedings according to
the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in
point of amount, keeping a record of their proceedings and
having the power of Fine and Imprisonment) Alexander Nel-
son, resident in said County, aged seventy-eight years, who
being first duly sworn according to Law doth, on his oath, make
the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made
by the Acts of Congress of the i8th March 1818 and the ist
May 1820 : That he, the said Alexander Nelson, enlisted for the
term of eighteen months, in the Fall of the year 1780 (the
month & day not recollected) in the Town of Staunton in the
State of Virginia, in the Company commanded by Cap. Laps-
ley, in the regiment commanded by Col. (the Colonel's
name not remembered) in the line of the State of Virginia on
Continental establishment : That he was marched to Hillsboro,
in North Carolina, where he was placed in Cap. Wallace's Com-
pany, in the regiment commanded by Col. Hawes : He was in
the battles of Guilford Court House, Camden, and Eutaw
REVOLUTIONARY PENSION DECLARATIONS. 19
Springs, & at the siege of Ninety Six : He afterwards lay sick,
for some time, in the Hospital at Camden, & was subsequently
marched with his Company (which was commanded by Cap.
Stribling after the battle of Guilford, where Captain Wallace
was killed) to Salisbury in North Carolina, where, having
served out his full term, he was honorably discharged, which
discharge he has accidentally lost : That he hereby relinquishes
every claim whatever to a pension, except the present : That his
name is not on the roll of any State, except Virginia ; and that
the following are the reasons for not making earlier application
of a pension : his unwillingness to subsist on charity or become
a burthen to the public, so long as he was able by any and every
exertion to procure a scanty subsistence for himself, but his ad-
vanced age and increasing infirmities have disabled him from
further pursuit of means necessary for a support.
And, in pursuance of the Act ist May 1820, I do solemnly
swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the
i8th day of March 1818; & that I have not since that time, by
gift sale or in any other manner, disposed of my property or
any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to
bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, en-
titled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the
land and naval service of the United States in the Revolution-
ary War" passed on the i8th day of March 1818; and that I
have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property or
securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income,
other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed
and by me subscribed. That since the i8th of March 1818, the
following change has been made in my property: One horse
sold to James Buchanan for the sum of Twenty five Dollars,
for which I hold his note, &: which is entered in my schedule,
the recovery of which is, however, very doubtful.
Due to me from James Astor, $100.00
Due to me from John & James Brafford and Sam'l Doak, 15.00
Due to me from John Hays, 1.25
Due to me from Joshua Hyden, 2.00
Due to me from William Gilke.son, 1.50
VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Due to me from William Glendy,
2.00
Due to me from David Grove,
2.00
Due to me from James Buchanan,
25.00
Shoemakers' Tools,
5.00
I Trunk,
3.00
$156.75
his
Alexander
X
mark
Nelson.
Peter Mines.
State of Virginia,
Augusta County towit :
On this 26th day of June, 1820, personally appeared in open
Court being a Court of record for said County Peter Mines
aged about sixty-nine years resident in the said county who
being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath de-
clare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows : He
enlisted with Capt. John Hays in the County of Rockbridge in
Virginia on the first day of Sept 1777 and was marched in
Company to White Marsh and was there attached to the 9th
Virginia regiment commanded by Col'o George Mathews ; that
he was marched from White Marsh to Valley Forge from there
to Morristown, to Trenton and thence to Philadelphia, that he
was in the battles of Monmouth Court H^ouse and Guilford
Court House and that at Monmouth Courthouse from severe
labor in erecting huts for winter quarters he was badly rup-
tured, that he was discharged in the month of July 1780, that
he is unable to obtain a livelihood by his occupation which is
that of a breeches maker. He has already made a declaration
nder the Act of Congress passed on the i8th day of March
1818 the date of which declaration he does not now recalled,
his pension certificate is dated the 7th day of Jan'y 1819. He
solemnly swears he was a resident citizen of the United States
on the 1 8th day of March 18 18 and that he has not since that
time by gift, sale or in any other manner disposed of his prop-
REVOLUTIONARY PENSION DECLARATIONS. 21
erty or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as
to bring himself within the provision of an act of Congress
enitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the
land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary
war passed on the i8th day of March 1818, and that he has not
nor has any person in trust for him any property or securities
contracts or debts due to him, nor has he any property except
what is included in the schedule here unto annexed. He has
no family but his wife an old and infirm woman and a daughter
who contributes nothing to his support.
Schedule of property
Two cows, three hogs, altogether worth thirty dollars.
his
Peter X Mines.
mark
Sworn to and declared on the 26th day of June 1820 before
the said Court of Augusta County.
I, Erasmus Stribling, Clerk of Augusta County Court do
hereby certify that the foregoing oath is truly copied from the
record of said Court. In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on the
day of .
John Ballard.
State of Virginia,
Augusta County, towit,
On this 26th day of June 1820, personally appeared in open
court, being a court of record for the said county, John Bal-
lard, aged about sixty years, resident in the said County, who
being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath de-
clare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows : He en-
listed with Lieuten't Howard, in Loudoun County, State of
Virginia and was marched to Fredericksburg in said State
where he was attached to Captain Adam Wallace's Company,
& Col. Bluford's regiment. From Fredericksburg he marched
with said regiment to Petersburg, in said State and was en-
camped near that place during the winter. The spring follow-
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ing he marched with said Bluford to the neighborhood of
Charleston in South CaroHna, & was afterward taken prisoner
at said Bluford's defeat at the hanging rock, where he was
badly wounded. He received three cuts on the head, a wound
in the side with a bayonet and one of his fingers was nearly
cut off. He suffered very severely from exposure to the in-
clemencies of the weather whilst encamped near Petersburg.
He is now entirely unable to do any kind of work, in conse-
qunence of the injuries which he sustained while in the service
of his country aforesaid ; and is so perfectly helpless that he
cannot put on or take off his own clothes without assistance.
He has already made a declaration under the Act of Congress
passed on the i8th March 1818, the date of which declaration
he does not recollect ; his pension certificate is dated the 8th
January, 1819. He has been some years in such indigent cir-
cumstances that before he obtained his pension from the United
States he was a charge on the County. And I do solemnly
swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the
1 8th day of March 18 18, & that I have not since that time by
gift, sale, or in any other manner disposed of my property or
any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to
bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress en-
titled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the
land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary
war, passed on he i8th day of March, 1818, & that I have not
nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities,
contracts or debts due to me ; nor have I any income other than
is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, & by me subscribed.
The said declarant further deposeth that the only members of
his family are himself and his wife ; that before he became a
cripple, his occupation was that of a farmer, but he is now
unable to pursue and does not pursue any occupation whatever.
His wife is aged about forty-six years. Her time is occupied
in attending to the household duties & to this declarant, who,
from his helpless sitation, & the state of his wounds requires
much attention. She is able to contribute very little if anythmg
to the support of this deponent. She expects to obtain some
small compensation for attending to cleaning the Episcopal
REVOLUTIONARY PENSION DECLARATIONS. 23
Church in the town of Staunton, but that will depend entirely
upon the liberality of the members of the Church who may
choose to contribute.
Schedule of the estate of the said John Ballard — necessary
clothing and bedding excepted.
I Bureau.
I Chest.
I Candlestick.
6 Chairs.
1 Cricket.
2 Small tables.
I Small old looking glass.
1 Bible I prayer book.
2 Hymn books,
A few religious pamphlets.
I pair smoothing irons.
I Tub.
I Flour barrel.
I Copper tea kettle.
I Hair broom.
I Tub.
I Oven.
I Skillet.
I Tin Bucket.
I Old salver.
6 Knives and forks.
I Coffee pot.
I Tea pot.
6 Cups and saucers.
6 Plates.
3 Table spoons, iron.
3 Pewter tea spoons.
Perhaps some other articles too trifling to mention.
his
John X Ballard.
mark
Sworn to and declared on the 26th day of June 1820 before
the said Court of Augusta County.
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Thomas Yorkshire,
Augusta County Court, July 20, 1831.
It is ordered to be certified that it appear by satisfactory evi-
dence to this Court that Thomas Yorkshire, aged about 81 years
(enHsted to serve three years) on the 19th day of December,
1776, under Captain John Syms of the loth Virginia Regiment
and that he served out the three years complete in the United
States service; that afterwards in the year 1780 he again en-
listed in the Virginia service under Colonel Sampson Mathews
in Staunton, to serve during the year, that he was taken a pris-
oner at Blueford's defeat in the State of North Carolina, pa-
roled and so remained till the peace succeeding the Revolu-
tionary War; and that in the year 1792 he again enlisted and
served three years in Wayne's Army — that about the year
he placed in the hands of Jacob Kinney, Esq'r (then a delegate
from this county to the General Assembly of Virginia) his
military land warrant to obtain a patent, and with it, his dis-
charge &c, which the said Kinney alleged in his life time were
all lost, mislaid or destroyed.
REVOLUTIONARY ARMY ORDERS.
For the Main Anny under Washington 1778-1779.
FROM ORIGINALS IN THE COLLECTION OF THE VIRGINIA HISTORICAL
SOCIETY.)
(continued)
D. O. Paramus Saterday Oct'r 9th 1779.
F. O. Major Stephenson.
The whole Division to be in Readiness to march tomorrow
morning by the Left. The Gen'l to beat at 8 o'clock And the
Assembly at 9 o'clock.
the Deputy Q'r master Gen'l will Call on Gen'l Woodford this
Evening for instruction Major Cabell will furnish Cap't Booker
REVOLUTIONARY ARMY RECORDS. 2S
with the Non Comissioned officers & privates wanting to Cora-
pleat the Light Infantry & Col'o Phebecca's Return.
For police Captain Jones
For picket i
in G'd s I I
Q'r G'd I
D. O. Kakiate, Sunday Octr loth, 1779.
The quarter master is to order all the waggons able to bring
Forage to parade tomorrow morning at 6 Oclock at Smiths
Tavern.
A Detachment of a 150 men properly Officered are to parade
at the Same time with the Waggons. Another party of 150
men properly Officered is to be Ready to march at 8 oclock.
The Commanding officers of Each of these Detachm'ts Will
Call on General Woodford for Instructions This Evening or
Early in the morning.
No musket to be Discharged in the neighbourhood of Camp
upon any pretence whatever without the particular permission
of the Brigadier or Officer Commanding the Brigade not Only
the Officers Comm'dg Guards but every other officer is Re-
quested to bring Delinquents to punishm't for this unsoldier-
like practice.
Straggleing & Distruction of the farmers property is also
Strictly forbid as we are now in a Possition much more Liable
to be Visited by the Enimy, than any we have been in this Cam-
paign. The Greatest Vigilents in the Officers Commanding
Guards as well as Strictness in the field Officers of the Day is in-
dispensiably necessary. Gen'l also hopes that the Officers will
see the necessity of the Strictness of Diciplain in Every par-
ticular Instants.
For the late in tlie Season the present prospect of aflFairs
promises the most active part of the Campaign.
For Detachm't Majors Clark & mitchel.
26 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
D. O. Kakiate, Oct'r 12th, '79.
F. O. Col'o Gist.
The Forage masters to be very carefull in Issuing the Forage
and see that no person Draws who is not Entitled to it by Gen'l
Orders & Regulations of Congress
The Waggon masters to pay particular attention to the man-
ner of their waggoners feeding their Horses and see that no
waist is Committed
The Gen'l Order of the 8th Instant Respecting the Exercise
of the Troops to take place immediately.
two fatigue Parties Consisting of a Sub Serg't & 20 men
Each to parade tomorrow morning at 6 oclock with proper
Tools (for which they will apply to the Q'r M.) The Officers
Commanding these parties will take their Order from Major
Cabell.
D. O. Kakiate, Oct'r 13th, '79.
F. O. Col'o Gibson.
The Subs picquet upon the Road Laid'g to Generals Wains
Camp to be taken off and the officer with one half the men to
Go as a patroll to Slaughters landing to Remain there untill
the morning when they are to Return and the Officer to make
his Report to Gen'l Woodford the like patroll to be sent off
Every morning while we Remain at this place Major Cabell will
Give the officer his instructions
For police Cap't Tabb
S C P
For piquet i
For in G'd i
For Q'r G'd i
D. O. Kakiate, Oct'r 14th, '79.
F. O. Colo Brent
For Police Cap't Mceleney.
For the day Adj't Bound.
REVOLUTIONARY ARMY RECORDS. 27
Head Q'rs, West point, Octr 8, '79.
The Honourable they Congress on the 28th Septem'r was
pleased to pass the following Resolve — and his Excellency the
president adds that the Important business in which Congress
have been Engaged — has prevented an Earlier attention to the
Brilliant action at Powlis hook/
Resolved that the Thanks of Congress be Given to Major
Gen'l Lord Sterling for the Juditious Measures taken by him
to forward the Enterprise and Secure the Retreat of the party.
Resolved that the thanks of Congress be Given to Major Lee'
for the Remarkable prudence address and bravery Displayed
by him in the Action & that they approve the Humanity shown
by him in Circumstances prompting to Severity as Honorable
to the Arms of the United States and Corrospondant to the
Noble principals on which the were assumed.
Resolved that Congress Entertain the higher Sense of the
Diciplin and fortitude manifested by the Officers and Soldiers
under the Comm'd of Major Lee in the march Action & Retreat
and while with Singular Satisfaction, the acknowledge the
Merit of these Gentlemen.
They feel and additional pleasure by Considering them as
part of an army, in which very many brave officers and Soldiers
have proved by their Chearfull performance of Every Duty
under Every Difficulty that they ardently wish to Give The
Truly Glorious Example they now Receive.
Resolved that Congress Justly Esteem the Milatarry Caution
So happyly Combine with Daring Activity By Lieu't McCollas-
ter & Rodolp' in Laiding on the forlone hope — Resolved that
a medal of Gold Emblematical of this affair be Struck under
>On July 19, 1779, an American force under Major Henry Lee ("Light
Horse Harry") captured Paulus Hook, a British fortified post on the
present site of Jersey City, and captured 159 prisoners.
* Henry Lee of Westmoreland county, Va., (1765-1818), captain, maj'jr
and lieutenant-colonel in the Revolution; Governor of Virginia, &c.,
and father of Robert E. Lee. He received from Congress a gold medal
for the capture of Paulus Hook.
'Lieutenant Archibald McCallister of the 1st Maryland regiment, and
Lieutenant Michael Rudulph of Lee's Light Dragoons.
28 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
the Direction of the board of Treasury and presented to major
Lee.
Resolved that Brevets and the pay & Subsistance of Captain
be Given to Lieu'ts McCollister & Rodolph Respectively.
Resolved that the Sum of 15000 Dollars be put into the
hands of Major Lee to be by him Distributed amongst the Non-
commissioned Officers & Soldiers of the Detachment he Com-
manded at the attack & Surprise of Powlis hook in Such man-
ner as the Commander-in-Chief shall Direct.
Resolved That the pay and Subsistance of Cap't be Allowed
to Lieu'ts Gibbens and Knox* the Officers who Laid on the
forlorn hope in the Late attack at Stoney point and also to M'r
Archer the bearer of the Gen'ls Letter Volunteer Aid, to Com-
mence from the Date of their Respective Brevets Voted by Con-
gress the 26th of July last.
G. O. Head Quarters, Oct'r 9th, '79.
The Gen'l flatters himself that every Officer from a Con-
ciousness of its being his Duty and a Laudiable desire of being
well acquainted with the new System of Regulations, has paid
all that Care and attention to the Study of them which import-
ance of the Case Requires, but Least there should be any, who
by Absence or other Causes have not had Apertunity of per-
fecting themselves therein. He earnestly Recommends the
Closest application, they will not only Consider the Awkward-
ness of a Situation which betrays Ignorance of essential Duty —
but the fatal Consequences which may Result from it in a
Critical Moment.
The Inspector Gen'l and his assistants will have it in charge
shortly to go into a full Examination of an enquiry into these
matters.
* Lieutenant James Gibbons, 6th Pennsylvania regiment; afterwards,
as Major James Gibbons, long a resident of Richmond, Va.. where he
died July i, 1835. Lieutenant George Knox was of the 2d Pennsylvania.
REVOLUTIONARY ARMY RECORDS. 29
D. O. Kakiate Tuesday Oct'r 12th 1779.
Field Officer Major Meriwether.
For police Cap't Moody.
For the day Adj't Meriwether.
Head Quarters, Oct'r 5th, '79.
The Commander in chief Requests that Commanding Officers
of Corps will immediately Call upon their Respective Officers
who are absent from Camp and not Employed upon Special
Commands or who have not Obtained present furliughs, on the
point most primaraty time to Join their Corps without a mo-
ments Delay, a Period may arrive in this Campaign and per-
haps is very near at hand when the Absence of Officers unless
the have powerfull Reasons for it may fix Endialiable Stigmay
upon them this Consideration if motives of publick Duty are
not Sufficient of themselves ought to bring Every one under
the above Discription to their Respective Com'ds.
Head Q'rs Morris hous Oct'r 8th, '79.
tomorrow the Troops will begin to Exercise in the following
manner
2 Regm'ts by brigades will Exercise from 9 to 1 1 oclock in
the morning And from 3 untill half past 4 in the afternoon for
this purpose for the Duty is to be Don Regimentally as far as
possiable.
Each Regm't will form a Battallion as Compleat as possible
absolutely not under the number of them first in the ordinance
Each Col'o will Comm'd the battallion and will perform the
following Exercise
1st the Manuel Exercise
2d To wheel by plattoon to the Right and Left, to march the
Regm't in the ordanairy Step to form it again in the Same
place which it has quitted
3d To advance in battallion in the ordanary Step.
4th To Retire in Battalion in the Same Step
5th To fire by plattoons Division & Battalions Standing
They Inspecters will assist in the Exercise and will see that
noting is Done Contrary to the principal Establish'd in the
Regulations
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For piquet i
For in G'd
For Q'r G „ . . . . 2
D. O. Kakiate, Oct'r 15th, '79.
F. O. Lieu't Col'o Ball.
For Detachment Lieu't Col'o House Major Stephenson.
Great Compleaints are made of the Soldiers Plundering the
Inhabitants of Nights. The Officers Commanding picquets are
to have the Rokds in the Neighbourhood of their Guards Pa-
trolled and to Confine Any Soldier that may be found Stragling
after Retreat beat'g and Deliver him prisoner to the Quarter
Guard of his Regm't. The Commanding officers of Regm'ts
are also Requested to have their Rolls Called Several times of a
night and to take Such other Efectual methods as may appear
to them Necessary to prevent this Shamefull practice.
The Deputy Quarter master Gen'l has fixed upon a wood Of
the Left of Gen'l Muhlenbergs Brigade from which the whole
Troops are to be Supplied and no person is to get wood here-
after at any other place.
All the Waggons are to parade tomorrow morning at 6
Oclock to Go out for Forage 150 Men properly Officered are
to march with the Waggons. Another party of 150 men are to
march at 8 oclock to Cover the Foragers.
The Officers Commanding each of these parties are to take
their Orders from Gen'l Muhlenberg.
Colo Washington" is to send a Detachm't of Horse properly
Officered to patroll in front of the Foraging party.
The Quarter masters are to Give the necessary Orders to
the Forage and waggon masters to attend to the Loading their
waggons and when the Forage comes in, is to order proportion
of it to the Cavalry.
For police Cap't Armstead.
For the Day Adj't Linton.
* Lieutenant-colonel William A. Washington, 3d Dragoons, a native
of Virginia, but afterwards well known as General Washington of South
Carolina, where he died March 6, 1810.
REVOLUTIONARY ARMY RECORDS. 31
For piquet
For in G'd
For Com'd
For Q'r G'd
For weeks Com'd.
S C P
I
I
5
G. O. Head Quarters, West point Oct'r 13th, '79.
As many Soldiers who have Lately Joined the Army have
not been Sufficiently Taught the first principals of the Exercise,
The Troops will in Every Exercise in Detail, And the Officers
must take perticular Care in Instructing their Men the Exercise
by Battallions to Continue Every morning as before.
Such Officers as are not with Espontoon are to Apply imme-
diately Through their Brigade Q'r M. to the Q'r M. G'l for a
Supply.
D. O. Kakiate, Oct'r T6th, '79.
F. O. Lieu't Col'o House.
For Police Captain .
For the day Adj't Mere wether.
S C P
For Piquet i . . i
For in G'd i
Q'r G'd I
D. A. O. Kakiate Oct'r i6th, '79.
An additional picquet of i Sub i Serj't and 18 privates to
mount at the Cross Roads upon our Right Where Lieu't Porter-
field will Coduct them —
The present picquet on the Paramus Road is to be moved,
So as to be half way between the Meeting House and the Cross
Roads. The Q. M. is to See that Every horse belonging to
the Division is Immediately Removed to paster in our Rear —
And that it may not be again Necessary to Repeat this order.
The Cavelry is also to Remove from the front and take quar-
ters in the Rear agreeable to former Orders. This is not to be
Etelayed Longer than tomorrow morning.
For piquet i Private.
32 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
D. O. Kakiate, Sunday, Oct'r 17th, '79.
F. O. Lieu't Col'o Allison.
This being the Anniversary of the Convention of Saratogue
it is to be Selebrated by the discharge of 13 pieces of Cannon to
begin on the Right of the Division at 5 Oclock This Evening
and to pass on to the Left. — Captains Baytop & Shingleton will
furnish themselves with the Number of Cartridges necessary.
The Troops are to parade in front of their Encampm't previous
to the fireing And when it is over to Give three Cheers.
The Gen'l is very Sorry it is not in his power to Order Some-
thing for the men to Drink upon this occasion But it Shall be
made up when any Liquor Arrives.
The Field Ofiftcer of the day will make the picquet acquainted
with this Order that they may not be Alarmed.
For police Cap't C. Ewell
For the Day Adj't Cary
(To be Continued.)
VIRGINIA IN 1666-1667. 33
VIRGINIA IN 1666-1667.
(Abstracts by W. N. Sainsbury, and copies in the McDonald and De
Jamette Papers, Virginia State Library.)
(Continued)
The Virginia Governor and Council to Lord
Arlington, 1666.
(Copy)
[Colonial Papers, Vol. 20— No. 117]
My Lord
Your most obliging Letter of the 23d of ffebmrary I
Receaved not till the 11th of July instant wherein two things
yo' Lords* ''P perticular recommended to my Care the for-
tefieing the Country and the promoteing of the usefull Com-
odities of silke hempp and Flax with the assureance of his
Ma*'«* most gracious assistance in the later. Now my Lord
for the first concerning the fortefieing the Country wee resolved
on it long before to our utmost possibilety and had designed
A Fort at James Towne in the Center and Hart of the Coimtrey
which would have been defended easily and alternatively by
all the Inhabitants But my Lord when our monies and worke-
men were ready for this most excellent worke the few great
gunns which are but fourteene brought up at great Charges to the
place wee know not by what misinformaton wee were Com-
manded to build this Fort in the Extreameties of the Province
in A place useless as to any Certaintie of defence and insup-
porteable in the Charges of it But the Command was soe
possetive wee durst not disobey it esi^ecially hopeing and
beleeveing that his Ma"** just Armes had beene soe suo-
cessfull against his unjust Enemies that wee should have
34 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
aoe great necessitie of more Forts then what wee built
on his Ma*'*' Command till wee had been able to in-
forme his Ma*'« of the true State of the Coimtrey But
now my Lord wee finde that all the Forts that wee can build
though never soe strong will not absolutely answer what they
are designed for the Entrance into the Province is soe large
that any Enemy[s] Shipp may ride out of all possible dainger
of the greatest Cannon in the world and shipps may be taken
goeing out or comeing in without all possible assistance from
us of this my Lord wee had a sad instance not two dales before
I receaved your Lords' **?• Letter For a small shipp of Fo'y that
could not gett out with the first Fleet which went out thirty
fower together I stayed till I had intelligence of two Friggets in
New England and then takeing his bond of a thousand' pounds
to goe home under their Protection I gave him leave to repaire
to them But within the Bay, lay A Caper with English Col-
ours who unsuspected tooke the shipp though the men which
were ten all escaped.
This makes me on my knees humbly to implore his Ma*'"
that when the next Fleet comes a Frigget may come
along with them to guard those that the wundes and stormes
seperate when they approach the harbour and wee doubt not
but the Marchants will joyne with us in this Petition and
Contribute something to the Charge of it It being soe
necessary for King and People.
For the second my Lord wee were also so intent upon silke
Flax and hemp that into the two first wee have made con-
siderable Progresses and as in duty wee thought wee were
bound to offer the first fruites of A new Rich commodity to
his Ma*'^ on the Publique Charges though wee were never
more unable (from divers causes) then now Wee have pre-
pared A present of three hundred Pounds of silke to be sent
to his Ma*** which is now ready but wee dare not send it till
wee heare farther what the Capers are and their number [and
that wee might be more intent on these comodities soe Hon ^'^
and usefull for King and subject wee have made and
Decreed A yeare of Cessation from planting Tobacco But
VIRGINIA IN 1666-1667. 35
my Lord that wee may not arrogate imtruely to much to
oiirselves in this particular Wee will Confesse this truth that
an absolute necessitie puts us upon this Provident wisdome
and the quantities of our tobaccoes soe great and the price of
it soe small that wee were not able to live by it For the Mer-
chants knowing both our necessities and the imconsumeable
quantities of tobacco wee had by us gave us not the twentieth
part of what they sold it For in England, and we can truly
avow that wee have now made and groweing more
then in humane probability will be carried home in three
yeares ensueing This I say with our desires to make ourselves
esteemed for being the Authors of richer and more warrantable
Comodities, endured and enforced us to make a Cessation
for the Preservation of the People which otherwise are in great
Dainger and wee Doe most humbly beseech your Lords '•'p that
wee on the Place swome to promote the service of his Ma*'*
may be beleeved before any private interest who understand
us not and that this is the sence of the Countrey these Gen*
that now assist me in the greatest affaires of his Ma*' • I have
desired to attest this and to subscribe themselves as I Doe
Your Lords'i'P'.
Virginia, IS*** July 1666, Most Himible and obedient serv'"
[signed] William Berkeley
Tho : Ludwell
Robt Smith
Rr: Bennett
Thomas Stegge
Henry Corbyn
Theo:Blande
[To] my L''^ Arlingtom
[Indorsed]
13 July 1666. R. "Feb.
Virginia
S' W. Berkley & Councell That they designed a Fort
at James Towne in the Centre of the Countrybut were comanded
to erect one in y"" extremitie of it, where y ® greatest cannon in
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y* world cannot defend our ships. That y • merch*' there will
contribute to y • charge of a Frigat to guard them if his Ma*'
will be pleased to send one. Have a Present for his Ma*' of
300 pounds of silke, but dare not send it yet in regard of Capers
Have made good Progresse alsoe in Hempe & Flaxe. Have
decreed a Cessation of planting Tobacco for one yeare; y*
merchts*" giveing not the 20*^ part of w* they sold it for in
England; haveing now a crop y* wiU not be carried away in
3 years to come.
A DESCRIPTION OP THE GOVERNMENT OP VIRGINIA.
(Copy).
Right Honorable
Being in obedience to your Lordships Comands to
give you a description of the Govemm* of this place & humbly
supposing your Lordship expects a relacion of y" p'"sent & not a
full discourse of y" whole Govemm* from y' first planting of
this Colony, which would bee very hard to doe by reason of y*
negligence of former times in transmitting anything of that
nature to their successor I have thought it necessary for y*
better performance of your Hono" Comands & Complyance
with that truth on which my following discourse must bee grown-
ded to give your Lordship a short Character of y* Govemo'' of
this Colony before I entd upon y* discription of his Govem-
m* I know it to bee superflous to say anything of his person
greate parts, or quallitie because your Lord'^ knowes & can
better judge of them then myselfe, I shall therefore w*'* your
Lordships favor only spealve of him as Goveno'' of Virginia,
& very hartely beg his pardon for y* Injury I doe his repu-
tation & merritts, Whilest my inabillity to prsent them in their
full Lusture may encline those who know neither him nor mee
to believe their defects to bee really in themselves, & not in
him who reports them & under y« securitie of this Apology to
your Lordship & him I shall bee bould to say that hee is a
Person pious & exemplarily sober in his Conversation, prudent
VIRGINIA IN 1666-1667. 37
& Just in peace dilligent & valliant in Warr I shall strengthen
three assertions only with three argum*' & for y • first shall only
say that mine owne long experience, & y" stiifrages of the
whole Coiintry can sufficiently prove y" excellency of his
Conversation, nor doe I think there can be a more convin-
cing evidence of his Prudence, and Justice Then that in six
years after hee was forced to resigne this Country to y * Genner-
all unhappy fate of our Nation (a Time when y» Enemies of
his Loyalty & Virtue would have loaden him with reproaches
especially had they had Justice on their side) there was not
one man that either publiquely or privately charged him with
Injustice, or any other fault comitted in eight years Govemm*
& for his dilligence and Vallour y ' frequent and greate hazards
hee exposed his person to in y» conquest of Opechankevough,
& all his Indians (whereby hee first secured this Country from
those fears that had possessed them from their first seating &
rendred the Indians soe subjected to this Govemm* that I may
confidently affirme y® Like Conquest hath bin made by noe
other English Govemm* in y* West Indies would have pro-
claimed his Millitary virtues, & have given him a very greate
reputation for that Service had it not hapned in an Unfortimate
time when the whole English Nation was involved in a Civill
War, and consequently had all their Reflections divirted from
what hee did here to what most and more nerely concerned
them there — ^And now my most honored Lord haveing given
you this short Character of our Govemo' I shall proceed to as
short a discription of his Govemment (which I soe tearme be-
cause heeis y* sole author of the most substantial parts of it
either for Lawes, or other Inferiour institutions) Which as
subordinate to that of England is devided into Ecclesiasticall
Civill & Millitary, for y" Ecclesiasticall parte of it (being yett
imfitt for a Bishop to reside here by reason of the fewness of
our Ntunbers & other Inconveniences) Wee are subjected to
the Sea of London, & have noe superiour Clergie amongst-
But when it pleaseth God to send us any Ministers some par,
rish or other p'sents them, & the Govemo' Inducts them But
with this Pious as well as prudent care that none bee admitted
38 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
to the exercise of their functions who are not in Ord" and very-
Orthodox in their profession of which excellent sorte of men
wee have at p' sent very few amongst us, & I could hartely
wish that my Lord of London, and other greate Cleargymen
would take us a little more into their care for our Better supply
since y* utmost of our Encouragem** will invite none to us
though wee have very few parishes give less then One himdred
pounds p Annimi and many give more Which is Levied by y*
respective Vestries, out of which they yearly choose church-
wardens as in England. And now my most Honored Lord
having said thus much of our church government, I beseech
you give mee Leave to p'"sent you w*** as true a narrative of
y' Civill parte of this Govemm* without any animadversions
upon it which to doe in the better Ord'^ I must informe your
Hono"" that this Colony is divided at p''sent into nineteen Coim-
ties, & those subdivided into parrishes only & not into hundreds,
or tythings which is only necessary in more populous Countryes
Every of which Coimties is left to the Care and Charge ' of
Eight, or Term Justices of the peace Whereof three or foure are
of y • Quorum out of which Number of Justices there is yearly
chosen a Sheriff who is Confirmed by y ' Govemo"' & upon suffi-
cient Securitie given to y ° rest of the said Justices is entrusted
with y " Collection & payment of all Publiqu^ Leavies, Quit-
rents, secretaryes & Clerkes fees, and hath Tenn p cent allowed
him for Sallery for y* rest of his Authority it is as in England
only hee keeps noe Court, and y* severall parrishes of Each
County are armed with the authoritie of a Cunstable chosen
from amongst y* honestest household^ & the said Whole num-
ber of Justices, or any foure of them whereof one to bee of the
Quorum are by Commission from the Gouvemo'' made and Con-
stituted a Court of Judicature for the Tryall of all Causes with-
in their respective Counties, except such as question Life, or
Member, & every particular Justice hath power to try and
determine any Cause to the vallue of Twenty shillings, or
Two hundred Pounds of Tobacco which Power was soe granted
to prevent f rivelous & unnecessary suites in y ° County Courts
which are held every second month; & once at least in Every
VIRGINIA IN 1666-1667. 39
year there is a Court of Enquiry w*^ wee call an Orphans Court
held before y* said Justices of the respective Countyes where
all Guardians are required to appeare, and bring their Orphans
to bee examined wether they are well used and to give an *ac-
compt to the said Justices of y» well, or ill Management of
such Orphans Estats as are committed to their trust, & these
severall Courts are soe appoynted in the respective Counties
as any person who may have business in many of them may
easely attend y* same because they are held neither on y*
same day, nor in y" same month at several! places from y"
Judgm'' of w*'' Courts y* parties agreeved may appeale to the
Gennerall Court held at James Citty on September, November,
and March every yeare before y* Gov and Councell which
' Court is of a mixed constitution for all Causes of what nature
or vallue soever they bee above Tenn Pounds sterling, or
fifteen hundred Pounds of Tobacco are tryed there either in
Common Law, Chancery, or Crimiuall as Treasons, Murthers
Felonyes, etc. if any Quakers, or other secteryes, or Noncon-
formists act anything in poynt of Religion contrary to the
Statutes of England, or the Lawes of this Country they are
tryed in that Court, y'' Power of Peace & Warr is seated in the
same. The Govemo'' and any three of the sixteen Councello'*
now residing here make a Court, Wherein as greate Care is
taken to malve the Lawes and pleadings upon them Easy &
obvious to every mans und'standing as in other parts.they doe
to keep them a mistery to the People for noe advantage is
allowed to either party from little Errors in Declarations or
Pleas etc-but both are keept within the just L>-mmitts of ye
merritts of their Cause and Judgm'^ pass secundum alegata et
probata & References are rarely obteyned but upon very just
grounds as either sickness of the party desiring it, or of y*
Witnesses, or papers in England etc. from which wee draw
these two greate advantages, y' avoiding trouble to y" Court,
and the speedy* dispensation of Justice to those who seeke it
from y* Judgm'' of which Court any person (upon securitie
*[sicl
40 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
given to prosecute it) may appele to the Assembly which
consists of the Governor, Councell & Two Burgesses chosen
upon (y* Governors Writt) by y' freeholders of every
County, and one for James Citty which assembly is convened
once in Every year (and upon Emergent occasions oftener)
a matter (though Chargeable) yett most necessary for the
spedier prevention of such Inconveniences, or Confirmation
of such good Institutions as may be most likely to obstruct, or
advance y * prosperity of New settled Govemmen*" there our
Lawes are enacted (all or most of which I hope your Lord-
ship hath seen) there are Leavies laid upon the People & pro-
portioned to the publiq * necessity, and since all fines imposed
upon offend''' are here (if not upon submission released)
leavied to the use of the Publiq^ (though to the use of the
Respective Govemo" till S"" W" Berkeleyes time, who first
released them that hee might keep his Reputation cleere from
all hazards of Calumny) It is by y^ Assembly orderd what they
shall bee imployed on, in fine it is by this Excellent temper that
a Right understanding is keept between Govemo'' and people
and that y* strings of Government are always kept in tune.
And now my ever hono'^ Lord haveing said this much of y°
two first parts of this Govemm* I shall proceed to the last
which is y° millitary parte of it, and informe your Lordship
that as y ' Country is devided into nineteene Counties, soe
it is into foure Provinces; The first whereof which containes y^
next adjacent Coimties to the Gov' is under his owne imme-
diate Conduct, y ^ other three being more remote are committed
to y ° Care of three Major Genneralls (one of whom Maj'' Genn'U
Richard Bennett I beleeve to bee of your Lordships family
both by his Name & armes) Every Maj' Genn'll hath two
Adjutants, and every coimty within y* said Provinces hath a
Regim* of ffoot imder y' Command of a Collonell (who for y»
most parte is one of y ° Councell) & other inf eriour Officers &
in many of them a Troop of Horse undbr y *• comand of a Cap-
taine, & other inferioiir Officers which horse when drawne
together have an officer appojmted over them — Besides there
is a Captaine of y° fort by Commission from y* King, and a
VIRGINIA IN 1666-1667. 41
Captaine of y" Guard by Commission from y« Govemo'' as
all y * other GflEicers are as from their Genn'U y ' Millitia of the
Coimtry being thus disposed of greate care is taken that y*
respective ofiScers doe traine them, and see their armes well fixed.
And truly my Lord I beleive all to bee in soe good Ord'' as an
Enimy would gaine little advantage by attempting any-
thing upon them,. I haveing now done w*^ y« last parte of this
Govemm*, I shall beg your Lordships patience whilst I write
a Word or two of y • articles betweene us and the Indians who
now-hold noe land but what wee grant them, and if they com-
mitt any Offence against an Englishman, or hee against them
It is tryable in our Courts, or before some of our Magistrates
but for any Difference amongst themselves it is still left to the
Discision of their owne Customes. I shall conclude with a
list of the principall Officers of State in this Govemm* w"** are
the Governor of whose revenue (being one Thousa«d Poimds
p Annu) I shall with your Lordships pardon say that though in
the Infancy of this Colony it might justily bee thought enough
yett now it is not onely Less then any other Govemo'' in the
West Indies receives but is foo little for y • Necessary Supporte
of that State y« Gov' of this his Ma"** antientest Colony
must keep, nor could our Govemo'' comporte v^dth y* Grandeur
of his authority nor comply w*'' his greate expences in setting
jp Manufactures, and other excellent designesfor y* good and
Example of this Country, did not his necessities make liim
admirably Industriotis on his farme for ye improvement of his
Revenue, wliich unavoideably diverts much of that Care hee
otherwise would wholy imploy for y" Publiq* utilHty of this
Colony. The next Officers are y' Councell Treasu'' Secretary,
Cap* of y* ffort Auditor Gennerall, and Surveyor Genn'U be-
fore y first of the Two Last all y Collect© " of y" Two Shill-
ings p hogshead of Tobacco, & all Sherriffs, or other receivers
of Publiq* Leavies appeare at James Citty twice in every
yeare, and perfect their accounts with him & take out their
discharge from him as out of the Exchequer in England and
before y* Surveyor Genn'll once a year appeare all Inferiour
Surveyo" (who are commissionated by him) with a booke of
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all y • Surveyors of Land by them made to bee examined wether
they have done right between y" King & his subjects of this
Colony who by an antient Indvilgence of y* crowne have a
Right to fifty acres of Land for every p'son they transport
into this country w*** transportacon being proved in any Court
of Record y" Gierke gives y' p ty claiming a certificate upon
w*'' y" surveyor measures him y» Land, and gives him a survey
und'' his hand which with y * certificate being entred in y « Sec-
retarys Office a pattent issues out for y* same signed by y*
Gov'' & Sealed vi^^^y" Scale of y° Colony, The Land to be held
of the King in Common Soccage at y « yearly rent of one shill-
ing for Every fifty acres, & to be seated in three years after
y" date of the pattent, or y» Land to bee Lost. My most
Hone* Lord I have now noe more to say but to beseech your
hono' that if you shall judge mee to have said too much to
Consider that the Nature of the subject would have admitted
much more, & if your Lordship shall blame mee for being too
short that you may forgive mee too, since I am affraid your
other greate Imploym*" will not permitt you to peruse what I
have already said, & shall therefore add noe more but my
Peticon for your Lordships pardon for my imperfections, and
may God for Ever bless you with all the blessings of Heaven
and Earth, & bless mee also w*"* a Continuacon of ^'^our favors
opon
My most honored Lord
You' Lordships most himible and HaythfuU
serv*.
[signed] Tho : Ludwell.
Virg' 17* »> 1666.
(Indorsed]
Virginia 17*^, Sep* '66
M' Ludwell, Secr'y gives a large yet modest character
of the Govemo' & Govemem*.
VIRGINIA IN 1666-1667. 43
GovENOR Berkeley to Lord Arlington, 1637.
(Copy)
[Colonial Papers. Vol. 21, No. 55.]
My Lord
I have given your Lordship frequent accotints of the
publique businesse of this Countrye But now must beg leave
to write to my Lord Arlington not as Secretary of State but
as to a noble person who I know as* seen in me an infinite re-
spect of his parts and Vertues this inclination of mine my lord
has been mightily increass'd by the frequent letters I have
had from my deare brother Acknowledging the favors and
kindnesses our family has receaved from you and did comand
me that I should addresse myselfe to your lordship when I
dard to hope for a marque of the Kings favour What shal I say
my Lord age and misfortunes has wilted my desires as wel as
hopes and the truth is I cannot in this time of my very old age
so wish myselfe happy but that I presently repent of my de-
sires to be so the way I proposd: when the time was that I
could have taken any—, gust in the favours of princes I wanted
the helpe of a frendly Angel to put me into the Poole when the
waters were made seasonable for hopes and powerful to heale
dispayre.
I have donne the King and his blessed father all faithful
service in my station but am as farr from pretending merit
to my King as the most pretending strict presbiterian is from
(G]odt
Yet though Ambition comonly leaves sober old age
co[v]etuousness does not I shal therefore desire of your Lord-
ship [t]o procure of his Matie the customes of two hundred
Hogshead [o]f tobb. I have now sent home. I have expended
[mjore on the extraordinary charges of this warr I shal desire
my brother to soUicite your lordship for this grant who is the
*[sic]
tIM. S. defective]
44 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
cause of this bold request my lord the great cause of mistakse
in this World, is that we thinke every one knowes our inclina-
tions and affections as wel as we doe our selves and that often
puts us on unmannerly petitions and if this be of that nature
I shal humbly beg a pardon but never cease to be a thankeful
acknowledger of the favors you have been pleased to shew
my dearest Brother
My lord I am from my hart Your Lordships most humble
(and pardon) most affectionate Servant
June 5'^ 1667
[signed ]Will Berkeley.
[Endorsed]
Jime 5, '67 S' W" Berkeley Virginia desires of his Ma*^ '
the Customes of 200 Hogsheads of Tobacco.
5*^ June 1667.
(To be Continaed.)
MINUTES OF COUNCIL AND GBNERAL COURT. 45
MINUTES OF THE COUNCIL AND GENERAL COURT
1622-1629*
Prom thb Originals in the Library of Congress.
(Continued from XX, 157)
•All erasares In the original are hen printed in italics.
(pencil folio 47] [ink folio 9]
November 8th Sr Fra : Wyatt Gou''no''
Peaceable Sherwood ( ^) aged about 26 yeere sw[orne
sayeth, that hee knoweth of a trunk that was broken
but was not privy to the doing of it
& sayth that hee saw certayne toren paps [papers] swiminj
do[wne]
the river & that M" Corker sayd they were y artic[les]
& sa3rth that to his best remembrance the word in the
first article was (proportionable, not equall[y]
The 2'* article hee doth acknowledge
Of the 3 '** He know sayth a booke was to bee ke[pt]
but he doth not remember that the no act was to be
entered into or don w*''out y** consent of each other
If any disagreement were, they should pt & a proppier
sion be made prop
There was such bonds sealed & deliuered but what
is become of them he knoweth not
iPeaceable Sherwood was living at James City, February 16, 1623;
but died at "the plantation over the water," before January 23, 1624-5.
46 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Touching the bond He knoweth not what yeares w[ere
agreed on for payment, but sajrth he heard Mr. Dr[i
demand two years And whereas though he is be a witness to
A bond, he did not reade it ouer.
[pencil folio 48] [ink folio 10]
A Court held the 8 of [November]
1624 being present Sr Frances
Wyatt knight Gou'nor
Robert Poole swome and Examined sayeth y* in the Tra[dtng]
Vioage wherein he was ymployed for Mr Thresurer
Pynnace called y * Elizabeth, he gave for eve xxx
Tubb bushell of Come, he bought of y » Indyans, tu xx
armes length of some beads, and thirteene armes le[ngthl
of some beades for Another Tubb.
And further he sayeth y* he did nott put away any o [fMr. }
Thresurers beads for come for his owne priv xx
vse no' any other in y« shipp to his knowledg
but he sayeth y* all y « shipps Company did truck
and trade for skins, butt where they hadd th
Truck he knoweth nott.
further he sayeth y* Capt Croshow gave for A great
Canoe w"'' he bought 10000 of blew beades, sayings
y' he would give M' Thresurer satisfaction for the beds
Also he sayeth y* he paide for matts 20000 of
blew beads, of wc"" matts there was vsed to seele
ye shipp 20, and
further he sayeth that he gave to the great man of potuxsea
to be their guid to pocotonck 6 or 800 of blue bead
MINUTES OF COUNCIL AND GENERAL COURT. 47
And saith y* hee did not buy aboue 6 tubbs of Co xxx
for any Copper
further he sayeth y* he did see in A Cheast RiC* xxx
some 201 of powder Knitt vpp in A Lynnen C xxx
and Certen Shott but how much he knoweth no[t]
further he sayeth y* he bought 7 great beare skins, 6 xxx
skins, 2 violdcatt skins, 9 otter skins, 2 yonge beare skin
skins [ [?] 8 or 29 muske ratts skins, 1 Lyone skin W^
Petuxsone gave him, and y* brought home
noe black fox skin And sayeth y^ Cap* Crosh[ow]
[torn and faded] of skins as he hadd
[pencil folio 49] [ink folio 11]
And further he sayeth y* he bought no e [torn] is
for redy beades to be deliuered htm ha
And sayeth y* at pocotanck they staid some 23 or 24 [days] s in
hope the Indyans would have fumisht them wth Come [b]ut one
weeke
thereof was vnnecessarily spent in seekinge owte of An English -
man And
the M' affirmeth ye same also
John Waltam [^] swome and Examined sayeth ,y* there was
in ye ship
one full barrell of powder, anso neere 201 of powder besides
and sayeth y* Capt Croshow carried ashore owt of the shipp 2
murtherers and 3 Chambers
Jeremy Roberts swome and Examined sayeth y* Mr. Gryme did
send y* dutchmas aboorde and tett away A mdlett of powder
2 or 3 gallons. And further sayeth y* he tett 200 of da xxx
2John Walton was living at Elizabeth City, February 16, 1623, and
was returned as a resident of the same place in the census of January,
1G24-5. He was then included in the "Muster" of Alexander Mountney,
was aged 28 and came in the Elizabeth in 1621.
48 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
fishe from M' Chew vppon M' Threasurers Accompt,
Mr Geyny had for his owne vse, and Allwyn dame
vppon his oath doth iustifie the same, and alsoe y* M' Genly]
Tooke Away 2 Copper furnaces 2 bottomes of Coppe[r]
and 3 Covering of Copper.
[pencil folio 50] [ink folio 12]
[Only contains some meaningles figures.]
[Pages 59 and 60 (numbered 49 and 50) printed Jan. 1912.]
[Page 61 (ink folio 60, pencil folio 87 blank.)]
[blank]
[pencil folio 88] [ink folio 61]
The Testamony of M" Mary Whittaker ["] taken
before the Gouemo' the 19*'' of November 1624
She affirmeth that not longe after Cap* Martin cam
into James River, he cam vnto the house of Cap* Jabez
Whittakers and amonge much other Discourse complayned
y* he had lost his Cropp by Coming in so late, y* said M"
Whittakers Demanded of him why he would com by Canada
sCaptain Jabez Whitaker owned land and resided on Southampton
River, now Hampton Creek. The census of February 1623 shows Cap-
tain "Isaac" and Mary Whitaker then living at Elizabeth City.
"Isaac" is evidently a misreading or misprint of "Jabez." Captain
Jabez Whitaker was a member of the House of Burgesses in 1623 and of
the Council 1626. He was probably the same person as Rev. Alexander
Whitaker's brother of the same name. He married Mary, daughter of
Sir John Bourchier, an uncle of the Regicide (see this Magazine I, 295).
MINUTES OP COUNCIL AND GENERAL COURT. 49
to w"'' the said Ca Martin replied softlie whispering in her
eare they both beinge neere together This was the last plotte
of the Company to take away my poore liefe.
[ink folio 21] [pencil folio 59]
[torn] Burrows gent swome and Examined sayeth y* about
whitson mtmday last m« Thomas Allnut [*] meetinge w***
him Told this Exa. y* now he knew who it was that
should Steele mara Buck [said y* was noe
noe smale one, but y* it was A great one] And further
this Exam sayeth y* he beinge very ymporttmate wth
Mr Allnut to tell him who it was, the said Thomas
Allnut said it was m' Sandys y* minister, and that
he had rather m' Richards should have her then he
Elinor ye maide servant of Thomas Allnut swome and
examined sayeth, y* shee herd her m' and M'" say y*
M' Sandys ye minister woulde steal away
Mara Buck
stolen [torn] and y* then this Exa: tolde her m' and M" y*
Francis
Dunninge servant to Cap* Mathews, told her that there was
one of y* side y« water would take away a maide
from this side, but named neyther of y* pties, where
vppon her M"" and M" said they could not devise who
should take her Away, except it should bee M""
Sandys y« minister
Bridgett Burrows y* wife of John Burrows gent swome &
examined saith y* uppon whitsone Tewsday in y * mominge
Mrs AUnutt came vnto her and told her y* now she
■*Thomas Alnutt and wife were living at the Neck of Land, James
City, in Feb. 1623, and at the census of 1024-5 lived at the same place,
where they were neighbors of the Burrows family. Thomas Alnutt,
came in the Gift and his wife in the Marytiold. It would seem that this
statement of Alnutt's charges against Sandys should precede the order of
Council (this Magazine XIX, 239) of July 12, 1024, punishing Alnutt for
this slander.
5(ut VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
knew who it was, and said y* was M' Sand3rs, and
this Exa: demandinge of Mrs Alkiutt how she knew
it, said y* her maides Coimtiyman dwellinge one
the other side y ' water, who told her that there
was A maide of this side y* was to be stolen away
by one from the other side
[ink 22] [pencil 60]
asked her anything conceminge [sic] y* matter y»
Deny it, but y^ anybody shee shovild [torn]
to any bodye ells, and further this Exa say
this tyme M' Allnut moved the match
very Convenient and fitt for him
John Jacksone swome and examed sayeth y* being [torn]
his howse, Mr. Burrows, ye p' vost marshall
beings pnt, vppon some report y* Mara B[uck]
ge stolen away, M' Burrows said y* he had rathe[r M'
Richards should have her then a stranger, or any other [he]
did nott know, and therefore wished Mr Richards
yf hee coiild love her, and shee him to make
yf he could gett her goodwill to p'vent other
Mr. Burrows wisht it might be Devuldge abro[ad]
prevent any such intent in others, foorther this xxx
sayeth y* M" Btirrowes prayed her husband to nott
trouble himself for she would look to her so [not ?] being
stolne and beare y* blame yf shee were stolne, this
Exa: fourther sayeth y* walkinge in the Hands w*'* M'
Richards
asked him whether he had any such intent to mary
Mara Buck, w«^ M' Richards vtterly denied
Thomas Allnut swome and Examined, sayeth y' vppon whit
Monday at night, M' Burrows vppon the reporte of M[ara]
Buck her stealinge away, said vnto this Exa : y* hee [would]
MINUTES OF COUNCIL AND GENERAL COURT. 51
rather M' Richards should have her then one he [knew]
not and asked this Exa: yf hee were nott of the s[ame}
minde, to w"*' he answered yes, and foorther Mr Burr[ows]
asked this Exa: wiefe whether shee ware nott of y' sa[mel
minde to, to whom she answered yes.
Mrs AUnut ye wiefe of Thomas Allnut swome and examined
say
y* Ellynor her maide did tell her, t* her Countrey wo[man]
dwelleth with Mr Thresurer Capt Mathews did tell her y*
there was one [of]
theire plantatione y* intended to steale Awaye a maide
of this side And ther vppon this Exa- suspected it was
Mr Sandys y * minister, And accordinglie went to M» bourow
and Acquainted her y' she thought it was Mr Sandys
[ink folio 25] [pencil folio 63]
Whereas Mr Doctor Pott and Capt Hamer were sent
to search for certen of M' Tutchins papers, Among
Hamer happened vppon one wrightinge W^ Concerned the
said Capt Hamer Walter Davis and Edwarde Tutchine, w"** Cap*
Hamer beinge Gardian to John Dauis brother to y* said
Walter Davis deceased, tooke owt of the truncke, and p'sent
heere in Coorte, therby to Chalenge what should be dewe
from the said Edward Tutchine, And whilst y » matter
was in Debatinge M' Lamoyne much forgettinge himself spake
these words) Conceminge y « taking away of the said wrightinge
that yf him self should haue done as much, perhaps he should
have kyste the whippinge post, where vppon the Covut hath
Censured y * said Lamoyne to aske Cap* Hamer in open Court
forgiveness and to pay twenty pownd str. fyne to y* Courte
John Swarbrooke O swome and Examined sayeth y* the Cowe
in controversie between Mr Blany and M' Sharpe
*No John Swarbrook appears in Hotten. A John Swaxbeck lived at
Pasbehaighs 1624-5.
52 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
was never vnder his Charge when he kept Capt W"
Powells Cattle, w«^ was about from about A moneth after y*
massacre vntill y • Court next followinge
Christopher Sanford swome and exad sayeth, that y" Cow in
Controversie as aforesaid was brought hither to this Hand
after y" massacre w*** Sr George Yardley Cattle, and
was vnder this Exat Charge about nyne moneths
and y* when he delivered vpp Sr George Yardleys Cattle
he left that Cow amongst them,
Yt is ordered y* M' Blany shall deliu to M' Sharpe the
Cow and A Calf when proof e is made w"^ is y* Calfe
Yt is ordered yt Peter Staff erton (') shall paye Capt Peerce
one hundred and fiftie pownd weight of merchantable
Tobacco, because he failed him of seaventeen barrells of
Come sold to him y« said Cap* Peerce for nyntee pownd
of Tobacco y« barrell, and Doctor Pott Testifieth in Court
[ink 26] [pencil 64]
Y* is ordered y* Cap* Nathaniell Basse C) shall have the
Vse of the lande late belonginge to George Grymes C)
9"Mr. Stafferton" and wife were living at James City in 1623.
Peter StaflFerton was a member of the House of Burgesses for Elizabeth
City in 1639.
^At the Census of 1624-5 Captain Nathaniel Basse, aged 35, who
had come in the Futherance in 1622, lived at Basse's Choice in the present
Isle of Wight County. In 1620 and 1621-22 he, with his associates Sir
Richard Worsley, Bart., Jolm Hobson, Gent., and Captain Christopher
Lawne agreed to transport 100 persons to Virginia, and received a confir-
mation, their old patent to be called "The Isle of Wight's plantation."
He was a member of the House of Burgesses for Warrosquoiacke March
1623-4 and October 1629.
*George Grymes appears in the list, dated Feb. 16, 1623, of those
dead at the Neck of Land, since April last. As Grymes was living when
this order was made it seems that the page of the original must be mis-
placed.
MINUTES OF COUNCIL AND GENERAL COURT. 53
at the neck of lande vntill the said Capt Basse
be satisfied the some of Fyf tie pound weight of tobac[co
wch the said George Grymes Doth owe him as by two
bills of Dept 'duced in Courte Appeereth
Yt is ordered y* M' Horwood shalbe heere at Courte-
the seavententh of this instant January To bringe
in his Answere to Capt Hamers demands
John Southeme swome and Exam' sayeth, th* m'
Nicholas Hide borrowed of John Elysone (*) thirty
shillings for one yeere for w"** this Examt standeth
bonde and suartie for m' Hide
Yt is ordered y* m' Jonas Stogden shall take the oath
of WilHam Cooke whether he were acquainted w*"*
the saile of three servant of W™ Gaimtlets to Cap*
Tucker, or vppon w* Conditions they were made
over to Cap* Tucker.
Yt is ordered that Joseph Johnson shall paye Christopher
Best C) twenty pounds weight of Tobacco for the Dept
of Rowland loftis or otherwyde y* he appeare heere
at the Coimsell Table one mondye next to shew
Cause to the Contrarye
Whereas Cap* Bass bought A Sow of Abraham
Porter (") for forty pounds waight of principall good Tobacco
M' Humphrey Rastell swome and exam' sayeth that
Capt Bass did p'mise payment of princypall
good Tobacco as y * said Abraham required
•John Ellison who came in the Prosperous and his wife Ellin who
came in the Charltie were living at Archer's Hope 1624-5.
'"Christopher Best was living at James City 1623.
"Abraham Porter, aged 36, is included by Hotten as among the ser-
vants of Peter Longman at James City in 1624-5. If Hotten is correct,
this order shows that servants could hold property beyond their neces-
sary clothes.
54 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Yt is ordered that Robert Chambley for his Contempt
in not provinge in A Jury beinge lawfully warned
by the Provost Marshall shall pay twenty pound
waight of good merchantable Tobacco
Ytis
[ink 70] [pencil 97]
Whereas John Powell in the behalf e of himself John Woo [xxx]
Williams brought into this countie, one Covenant made by
Richarde als Sheparde bearinge date the first of Novembe
by w"** Covenant they were to pay to Mr Danell Gookin or hi
A Certen some of Tobacco, as also to deliver divers men & go
as by the Covenant it doth and may farther Appeere, And for
as y • said Richarde als Sheparde is departed owt of This Co
and hath left noe Certen Attorney to receave the said Tobacco
me
and goodes, nor other order as yett Taken by Mr Gookin, Th
Gou'emor and Coxmsell takinge into Theire Consideracon y* the
said
Mr Gookine may not be dampnified by the nechgenc of his
officer
have appoynted Cap* W™ Tucker, to take and receave into his
Custody and Care, not only the Tobacco and Come dew by th
Covenant w**' Charge to see y* Tobacco be of the best y* grew
that Cropp, and that non of the said Cropp be otherwise disp
of till the said Choyse be made, But also the Plantacione
servant Cattell and other goods thervnto beloanginge And
in the said Covenant specyfied, And y* the said Cap* Tucker
vppon the receipte of the before expressesd p'mises do putt
in bound w*'' Sufficyent suerties to y* Gouemor and Cotmsell
to be at all tymes Answerable to the said Daniell Gookine
or his Assignes Conceminge the premises, at or before y*
daye of January now next ensuinge.
MINUTES OF COUNCIL AND GENERAL COURT. 56
Richard Smith servant to Mr. Robert Addams C^) swome and
Examined
sayeth y* to his knowledge his m' did never gather any of m'
Horwoods Come, nor that his said Mr did euer bid him
to gather any of Mr. Horwoods Come.
Robert Addams swome and Examined sayeth y* James Davis
made A Bargaine w*** M' Emersone (*'), That in regarde
m'. Emersone was to free y " said James Davis of his
service, he was to give the said Mr. Emersone
one servant boy and a Cowe.
[pencil 981 [ink 71]
Whereas Anna Cooper Complayned in Coorte by [torn] tion
yt her late husband James Harisone C*) ^'^ lend a shallopp
to Liv* George Harisone late deceased, w*'' boate the
saide Anna Cooper often demanded of the said Li-vt
Harysone, but could never gett the same or Satisfacto" for it
i2Robert Addams who came in the Bona Nova, was living at Martins
Hundred in Feb. 1624, Mr. William Harwood (or Horwood) also lived at
Martin's Hundred in 1624 and had six servants. He was appointed to
the Council in 1620 and in the next year Commander of Martin's Hun-
dred.
i3ln 1624-5 John Davies, who came in the George in 1617 and William
Emerson, "his p'tner," who came Ln the Sampson in 1618, were living at
Jordan's Journey.
'••In Feb. 1624 Ellis Emerson, Ann his wife and Thomas his son,
aged 11, all of whom came in the George in 1623, were living at Martin's
Brandon. Alice and Robert Emerson, children of "Mr. Emerson," had
died in 1623.
'"No details regarding Ensign James Harrison appear in the old
records. Lieutenant George Harrison was brother of Sir John Harrison
of London; was granted a tract of land near Chippoaks Creek on the
south side of James River March 6, 1620-21, fought what was probably
the first duel in Virginia in the Spring of 1624, and died shortly after-
wards. See Brown's Genesis, 11. 913.
56 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Uppon the Testimony of Capt Hamer, that Ensigne Harisone
did lend the said shallopp to Liv* George Harisone
And vppon the Testimony of Cap* Tucker, y* he demanded
the saide shallop of Liv* Harisone in the Right of
the saide Aima Cooper.
It is in Courte ordered that George Menefrey
Administrator for y * saide Liv* George Harisone
shall presently paye to the saide Anna Cooper in
Satisfaction for the said shallop some of
one himdred pound weight of marchantable Tobacco
Cap* Raphe Hamer Coimsellor of State swome & examined
sayeth, that beinge in Conference w*'' Cap* Martyn about
the Gouemor, Cap* Martyn said to this Examinat, that
yf the Gouemor when the date of his three years was
ower, would goveme for the kinge, he would rather he
were Governor than any man else, But yf he governed
for the Company, he would nott allow him to be Governor
Then this Exa' made answer, that hee thought ye Go'uno'
all way se governed for the Kinge, for in all things he governed
Accordinge to the ICings lawes.
Cap* Roger Smith Counsellor of State swome and Examined
sayeth, y* Cap* Martyn being at supper with this deponents
sister and himself, Falinge in talke about Virginia, he
showed some Virginia dyamonds w*'^ some other thing amongst
the rest there was A peece of Cristall, and beinge demanded
from whence he had it. Cap* Martyn saide ther was A
rock of Christall fownd in Virginia, And this Examinat
said y* in his tyme beinge in Virginia he never knew
of Any, Then Cap* Martyn said y* when he cam to
Virginia y* this deponent should see him have A chrisoll
mantle Tree
[pages 69 to 72 printed (misnumbered 47 to 50) in
January, 1912.]
MINUTES jOP COUNCIL AND GENERAL COURT. 57
[pencil 75] [ink 37]
A Courte held the laste daye of November, 1624
Present Sr Francis Wyatt Knight &c Cap* Francis
West Sr George Yardley M. Threasurer, Doctor
Pott, Cap* Smith, Cap* Hamer.
Hughe Hayward C^) and Robert Fitt swome and examined
say, that
they were p'sent when Thomas Harralde made his will and that
they both were wittnesses to the same, and y* this will brought
into the Courte by M"" RichardeKingsmell is the same will
and that he was in p'fect memory when he made the same, and
lived about a month after, but made no later will that they
know of.
Silvester Bvillen swome and exa sayeth that John
Dayns did Carye Certen Tymber for Cap* Tho : Barwick
to his house, for W^ he p''mised him some Tobacco but
how much he knoweth nott.
It is ordered y* whereas Thomas Sulley hath broken y» Saboth
daye in goinge A huntinge, as by M"" Richard Kingsmell
hath been Complayned one in Coorte, That he shall paye
five pownd sterlinge in good Tobacco Towards the Church
Charge, and acknowledge his falte in the Church before the
Congregatione
Thomas Gates swome and examined sayeth, that he Cominge to
John Jacksone to demande 76 pownd of Tobacco, y ^ same
Jacksonne went w*** him to George Clarke, and Caled y*
said George Clarke and told him that this is the man y*
this is the must make your house Tyte and yf you will
pay him y ' 76 pownd of Tobacco I will giue you an Acquittal
' *Hugh Haward, who came in the Starr and his wife Susan, who came
in the George, were living at Pashbehaighs in January 1624.
Robert Fitt, who came in the George and his wife Ann, who came
in the Abigail, lived on James City Island 1624-5.
Silvester Buller, aged 28, was then a servant of Richard Tree at
James City.
Thomas Gates, who came in the Swan in 1609, was living in 1624-5
at Pace's Paines on the south side of the river near Jamestown. George
Clarke died at James City in 1623-4.
58 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
[ink 38] [pencil 76]
It is ordered at this Courts, That Capt Martyn shall paye
to Mr Humphrie Rastell 960 pound weight of good merchantable
Tobacco such as shalbe valued woorth ijs the pownde at or
before ihe xxth daye of December now next ensuinge at James
Cyttie And that yf the said Capt John Martyn do fayle
in payment of the said Tobacco in pte or in the whole, in
and vppon the aforesaid That then Capt Martyn shall
forfeyt ye 600 pound weight of Tobacco allowed him
by the Coorte.
And that vppon the payment of the said 960 pound waight
of Tobacco the said Capt Martyn and Mr. Rastell shall
scale Release eyther to other concerninge this business
Wheras Cap* John Martyn by Covenant vnder his hande and
seale
ys to paye M' Humfrey Rastell for Transportinge of him self and
twelve men and Certen goods, the some of two hundred, twenty
and eight pownd ster as Tobacco shalbe woorth heere in redy
money
Yt is ordered that there be abated for five men w*** should have
been Transported and were nott, as also for theire victualls
sixtie
pownde sterling.
Yt is ordered y* there be six hundred pownd waight of Tobacco
allowed Cap*. John Martyn, for wrongs and damages in
Caryinge
him to Canada and detayninge him there, wherby he Arived
soe late
in Virginia w*'' six hundred pownd waight of Tobacco at two
shillings the pownde Cometh to sixtie pownde ste' (The
Remander beinge one thousande hundred and fowerscore eight
pownde
waight ster, Cap* Martyn ys to paye in such Tobacco as
shalbe worth heere two shillings A pownde (wch will
MINUTES OF COUNCIL AND GENERAL COURT. 59
Amounte to one thowsand and fowerscore pownd of Tobacco
w'** Cap* Martin is to paye to M' Htiinfrey Rastell Exer
Admr or assignes at or before the twentieth daye of December
now next Ensuinge in James Cyttle (And that yf ye saide
Cap* Martyn do fayle in payinge of the said one Thowsand
and fowerscore pownd of Tobacco in pte or in the whole at
or before the days aforesaid, That then Cap* Martyn shall
forfect the six hundred pownd of Tobacco allowed him for
wronge and damages as aforesaid
And that vppon the Payment of ye saide one Thowsand and
fowerscore pownd waight of Tobacco, The said Cap* Martyn
and M'. Himifrey Rastell shall scale Release e3rther to other
for and Conceminge this Business.
[ink 39] [pencil 77]
John Phillip A negro Christened in England 12 years since
swome &
exam sayeth, y* beinge in a shipp w*** Sr Arthur Henry Maner-
inge they tooke
A ship Spanish shipp aboute Cape Set Mary and Caryed her to
mamora
in w''' shipp was A spanishe ladye and divers other, Arid beinge
inMam'a
m' Symon Tuchinge Cam into Mamora in a smale shipp, and
after
some Conference had by y* said Tuckinge w'** Spaniards taken
as
aforesaid, he was by them ymployed in y * said smale shipp to
Lisbone
to feach money for the Ransominge of the said lady w'** Accord-
inglie he p'formed.
Edward Pepprett sv\'ome and Examined sayeth y* Symon Tuch-
ing told this deponent
him before divers other of the shipps Company thar he was the
saide
60 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Tutchinge was banished owt of England and Ireland, sa)dnge
I Come of A good kindred, I dare nott shew my face wher I
was bonie, I care nott yf all my kindred were hanged, and doth
Cale the p'testant Lutherans, And ftirther sayeth y* saide
Tutchine hath been very dilligent in soimdings of this River
as also in enqueringe after the Chanells of other Rivers w*''in
the baye And further he sayeth that Tutchinge doth give owt
and intend at his retume to Tuch at the Westeme Hands and
refresh his men
George Rugless swome and Examined sayeth y* the said
Tuchinge
reported of himselfe y* he was a banished man owt of England
and
sayeth y* he was very well acquainted and respected in y « Made-
ras
and hath said of his kindred (y* they did not care for him, nor he
for them, And he cared not yf his freends were all hanged
and jrt yf occasione were, he would Tuch at the Wester Hands
Maderas as he reto'.
John Lamoyne marchant swome and Examined sayeth y* M'
Tuchinge
did tell This Examinate that he was a banished man owt of Ire-
lande.
[ink 40] [pencil 78]
William Emersone swome and Ex^ sayeth, that at Christmas
last past this Examt' and John Davis, Did give to William
Liv* Gibbs for A man servant named w™ Popleton, for
two yeers, three hundred pownd waight of tobacco wch
Tobacco was presently paid to Liv* Gibbs.
Yt is ordered y* y » like Lre of Administ' be granted to John
Bush as hath been formerly granted to mr. George Keth
And that he bringe two SufiBcyent men to stande bound
MINUTES OF COUNCIL AND GENERAL COURt. 61
w*^ him the trew pformance of the said Administra* And
to be heere one mondaye next Com fortnight to pforme
this order, at W^ time or before Mr. Keth is to
bringe in A trew Accompt of the Estate of y« O'phant
[At the end of this page and the beginning of the next, are
depositions in regard to the attempt made by the drunken
master of the ship Ambrose then lying in James River, to
commit an vmnatural crime with one of the crew. The details
are unprintable, even as part of an ancient record.]
[pencil 95] [ink 68]
Mr William Cleyboume sayeth y* he was in place
when M'' Threasurer did say he had frely forgeeve Marten
Turner two yeers serNdce of his 7 yeers
w'ch he was to serve him. A,nd Marten Turner
did not contradict it. And y* howe Marten had
but five yeeres to serve, w*=^ the said Marten
beinge presesnt did not gaine say.
Wheras the Counsell the half doth Chalenge for them selves and
the Publique officers of the Colonic the moytie of y* Companys
rente, as Appeereth by theire great Charter of laws and
prders dated [sic] And since it is
a thinge y* was never heertofore payed Nor by the Treasurers
Commissione as he Conceaveth, he is Awthorized to pay it. He
therefore doth Peticion the Court, That it may be referred
to A nisi pryus, wherin neyther pte shalbe interested
Yt is ordered yt one Tcusday Wensday Com senight the xvth
of this december next (sic) be a Jury warned of discreet
A Sufficyent men Consistinge of 18 psones in number
to decide the forsaid Questione
62 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
[96] [69]
Wheras Cap* Hamer Compleyned in Courte for y * recovery
of A Debt of 250 waight of Tobacco Dew to be paide
by Ensigne James Harrisone Deceased and David Baily
and John Costarde I'wise Deceased as p*ners together
for as much as noe prooff e was made of their p*nershipp
and for y* it Did appeare by two servants that were only
left alive, That they did proply belong to the saide
James Harisone,\as by deposition of the said servant
appearath y* is therefore ordered y* Anna Cooper late
wiefe to the said James Harisone doe onely Satisfie the
pper depts dew by the said James Harrisone
The Depositions of Jo ; Coker taken before Capt
Willia Tucker ye xxi*'' dye of November 1624
Tutchinge y ^ difference between Cap* Raphe Hamer
and Justinian Coop'r and his wife
This deponent sayeth y* he was servant only to Ensigne
James Harisone, and no man to Jo : Costerd
or David Baylie, neyther doth he know of any agrement
betweene the said James Harisone John Coster and David
Barry of C'^tnershipp And he also sayeth that the
said James Harysone had pte o' pcell of the
goodes that were bought of M'. Robert Bennett
deceased by the said John Coster or David Barry
John Coker
The depositione of John Curtis
taken as aforesaide
This deponent sayeth y* Ensigne James Harisone deceased
MINUTES OF COUNCIL AND GENERAL COURT. 63
bought of Liv* John Cheasman C^) his [Curts's] tyme of ser-
vice
and two more named Henry Davis and Jo : Maltman
for y * sole and pper use of the saide James Harysone
for the some of six hundred pownds of Tobacco which
some was paid by the wiefe of the said James
Harysone owt of his owne pper Tobacco
The mark X of Jo:
Curtis
/ William Tucker doe affirmc.
[Page 79 (ink 63, pencil 79) blank)
isjustinian Cooper who, from this entry is shown to have married
Ann widow of James Harrison, was long resident in Virginia though his
name does not appear in the Census of 1624-5. He was probably out of
the country at the time. He settled at Warrosquoiacke (the present Isle
of Wight). On Sept. 1, 1636, he patented 1050 acres in the County of War-
rosquoiacke adjoining the head of Lawne's Creek, Back Bay and his
own dwelling house. In 1645 he patented tracts of 112 and 1350 acres in
Isle of Wight County near the head of Seaward's Creek, part of which
had been granted to him in 1637. He had other grants of land.
There are various papers in the records of Isle of Wight County
which refer to him. Among these are; (1) deed dated Oct. 19, 1625, from
Gyles Jones to Justinian Cooper and Ann his wife, conveying 100 acres,
part of a patent dated December 14, 1619; (2) deed Sept'29, 1629, from
Justinian Cooper and Ann his wife, "late relic of James Harrison," to
Wassell Neblin and George Fawdon, conveying the above named 100
acres; (3) deed, April. 25, 1646, from Justinian Cooper and Ann his wife
to John George, conveying the Robert Bennett Tract and the Quarter
Tract (200 acres) part of a patent for 2,000 acres, dated March 16, 1642;
(4) will of Justinian Cooper, dated March 26, 1650, (printed in this Mag-
azine VI, 122). His wife Ann was then living; (5) deed, 1671, from William
Woolard, late of Harwich, Essex, England, mariner, but now resident in
Isle of Wight County, Va., heir of Justinian Cooper, long since deceased,
to Nathaniel Bacon, Esq.
isjohn Cheesman, or Chisman, of Kicoughtan, gent., patented 200
acres on the river over against that place, Sept. 2, 1624. He was born in
1597, came to Virginia in 1621, was a Justice of York County 1635, mem-
ber of the House of Burgesses 1642-3, and was appointed to the Council
1652. He married Margaret , and returned to England before 1661,
being then a resident of the parish of St. Mary Magdalene, Bermond Sea,
Surrey. He died in 1665. His brothers Thomas and Edward Chisman
(the latter bom in 1602) were living with him in Virginia in 1623. From
the latter the Virginia family of Cheesman or Chisman descends. See
this Magazine I, 311, 312; XIV. 86, and Wra. and Mary Quarterly Oct.
1892 and July 1893.
64 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
[ink 44] [pencil 80].
A Cotirte held the xiij*^ of December 1624 present
Sr: Francis Wyatt knight &c Sr George Yardly Knight
Doctor Pott, Cap* Hamer, Cap* Smith
Abraham Porter swome and examined sayeth y* the last yeere
beinge
at William Cluch his howse, he sawe A hogg kilde that hadd
noe Eare marke and y* Cluch told this exa' he bought
that hogg of John Johnsone for A snaphaine peece.
Further this Examana* sayeth y* y * saide W™ Gluck told this
Examinat' y* John K. John Johnsone sold John Haule A hogg
wch was ynearmarkt.
And further this Ex^ sayth y* John Haule kild A hogg
vppon yt Saboth dye by ye appoyntment of John Johnsone
as Clutch told him.
William Cluch awome and Ex"" sayeth y* John Johnsone sold him
A hogg w"** was not eare markt, for w'^^ hog he gave the
said Johnsone a snaphame peece.
Further he sayeth y* about 3 weeks since this Exa™ Cominge
from Eveninge prayer ( ^^) yppon the saboth daye, John Haiile
had kUd a hog at John Johnsons house, for w^'' John
Johnsone was angry with his wiefe and John Haule.
Yt is ordered yt wheras John Johnsone hath kild 4 hogg of 3
quarters olde beinge vnearmarkt, Contrary to A lawe
formerly made, that he shall make restitutione of
4 other hogg of the same age to the use of ye colony Go^no'.
Richard Craven C^) swome and Examined sayeth y* W™
Cooke
and Thomas Hethersell Borrowed A Boate of Richard
Tree to Carry downe theire goodes to blunt poynt
by whose Careles necklect the saide boate was
splite and quite loste.
i^'It is interesting to know that there was evening prayer in the
Church at Jamestown where John Johnson lived.
isRichard Craven owned 150 acres at Blunt Point in 1626.
MINUTES OF COUNCIL AND GENERAL COURT. 65
John Clarksone swome and examined sayeth y* Richard Tree
did
lend a boate to M'. Thomas HethersoU, w*** boat M'.
Hethersoll
did p'mise to deliuer safe again to Richard Tree at James
Cyttie and Cominge to Martins hundred, M'. W™ Cooke &
M'. Hethersoll, Richard Craven and this Exa' beinge in ye boate
they went ashore, And this Exam' seeinge much fowle wether
Cominge, he went and requested M'. Cooke and M'. Hethersoll
to Come, and helpe to draw ye boate to som Convenient place
where she might be owt of danger but they answered they
wold not by reasone whereof y * boat was split & lost.
[pencil 81] [ink 45}
Luke Edan swome and Examined sayeth that there was
sixteen thousand of fish offered him by one Corbin
at Canada w"^** aftenv^ard y* said Corbin refused to
sell him for that it was told him his Tobacco was
not good, and as this Exa' hurd, it was Henry
Hewet that told him soe.
Further this exam sayeth y* there were Certen Rugge
and prunes abourd the shipp of one dockett lanes
bargand for and Docket was to receive the
London June Tobacco
the twentieth? for them, w"** in regard the Rug were sent
Dinspensation ashore
in a fowle and Raging daye by Mr Hewett,
Dockett
would not lett this Exa by neither the prunes nor
Rugg.
66 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Domine
[This Further this Exam sayeth y* he rec'd but seventy
marginal and six pound waight of M' Marshalls Tobacco w°'»
note is he disbursed and is redy to geve an Accompt for it
& and foorther saye that there was about thre hundred
illegible] pound waight of Tobacco in A Cheast y* no better
then doinge and nothinge woorth.
M"" Doctor Pott aflfirmeth y* M. Dilke beinge at his howse
told him y* he was to be his my his neighbour, sayinge y' he
had agreed w**" Jo: Lightfoote for his house and groundes
where vnto Doctor Pott replyed y* Jo : Lightf oot (to his
knowledge) had let the house and grounde to goodman
Binck ( ^^) and y* it wold breed Controversie and
the pooreman wold be disapoynted, wherto Mr. Delke
answered y* John Lightfoote told him y' Binck
had geven it over, then Doctor Pott was sent
his boy for John Lightfoote and asked him when
he would offer to sell his howse to M'' Dilke in
regard he hadd formerly lett it to goodman Binks
wherto he answered y^ he thought Bincke wold
not have it because he did not com over vppon
new years dye, as he had apoynted.
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(to be continued)
laWilliam Banks and Ann his wife were living at the Main near
James City 1624-5.
COUNCIL PAPERS, 1698. 67
COUNCIL PAPERS, 1698,
(From original volume in the Virginia State Library.)
"ThisBookbegimby Mr. Benjamin Harrison, Clerk of ye Council 1698.
(Inscription of fly leaf.)
WM. BYRD TO THE GOVENOR
May it please your Excellency
I am most Sensibly afflicted that my Lameness prevents my
attendance on your Excellency at this time as my duty re-
quires Hope in a short time to be perfectly well when (God
willing) shall never be wanting to behave myselfe with all re-
spect to your Excellency to whom I wish a long and prosper-
ous continuance in this Government I shall always remain
most faithfully
Your Excellency's most Humble
And Obedient Servant.
William Byrd.
Westopher
December ye 7th 1698.
RICHARD JOHNSON TO THE GOVERNOR
May it please your Excellency
To pardon my not wateing upon you according to my duty
For my ould enemie the Gout had like to have kept me prisnor
the last time I was at towne but was so kinde to let me come
home but the next day Seised me and hath not yet acquited
me though I thank God I am able to walk about a little and
did adventure the last weeke to ride 8 miles but (though it wa s
bo VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
very Good wether) it made me almost as lame againe as ever
and I have not dared to venture on horse back Since. Noth-
ing S'r but indispensible necessitie could have kept me from
comeing to kisse your Excellency's hand and Expresseing my
joy for your comeing againe to Goveme us therefore cannot
doubt but your Goodness will excuse.
Your Excellency's
Most humble Servant
Richard Johnson.
December ye 8 1698
To his Excellency Francis Nicholson Esq'r & c.
ORDER FOR COMMISSARY BLAIR'S SALARY
By the Lords Justices
(L. S.)
Tho. Cantuar His Majesty's Additionall Instruc-
Dorsett tion for Francis Nicholson Esq'r His
Marlborough Majesty's Lieutenant and Govemour
Romney Generall of his Majesty's Colony and
Chas. Montague Dominion of Virginia in America And
in his absence to the Lieutenant Gover-
nour or Commander in Chief of the said
Colony for the time being. Given at
Whitehall the 20 day of September 1698
in the Tenth Year of his Majesty's
Reign
Whereas His Majesty has for some years past been pleased
to allow unto Mr. James Blair Commissary for the Lord Bishop
of London in Virginia One hundred Pounds Yearly out of his
Quit Rents in that Colony which has hither to been accordingly
paid unto the said Commissary by Speciall Warrants from the
Lords Commissioners of his Maj'ty's Treasury, And his Maj'ty
has been humbly moved That the Govemour of the Said Colony
may for the future be Directed by an Instruction to pay unto
COUNCIL PAPERS, 1698. 69
the said Commissary Blair the said allowance of One hundred
Pounds yearly with the Arrears thereof out of his Maj'ty's
said Quit Rents without further Warrant. His Maj'ty's Will
and Pleasure is that you accordingly give Directions for the
payment of the same out of his Maj'ty's Quit Rents in that
Colony tni further Order.
By their Excellency's Command
Ja. Vernon.
To his Excellency Francis Nicholson Esq'r His Maj'ty's
Lieutenant and Govemour Generall of his Maj'ty's Colony
and Dominion of Virginia in America.
Ja. Vernon.
ORDER AS TO NAVAL OFFICERS
By the Lords Justices
Tho Cantuar Instructions for Francis Nicholson
Somers C Esq'r his Maj'ty's Lieutenant and Gov-
Pembroke C P S emour Generall of his Maj'ty's Colony
Marlborough and Dominion of Virginia in America
Romney and in his Absence to the Lieutenant
Oxford Govemoiir or Commander inChief of the
said Colony for the time beimg.
Given at Whitehall the 10 day of
November 1698. In the Tenth Year
of his Majesty's Reign.
His Maj'ty having been informed that the Navall Officers,
being the Persons appointed by the Govemours in his respective
Plantations in America to take Bonds and give Certificates
for clearing of Ships have generally neglected to comply with
the Direction of the late Act of Parliament for preventing
frauds and Regulating Abuces in the Plantation trade which
requires their giving Security to the Commissioners of the
Customes in England for the due Discharge of their Trust.
And it having been further represented to his Maj'ty that
besides the Security which the said Navall Officers are Obliged
70 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
by law to give it would be very Expedient that (according to
the Constitution of the Customes in England which has pro-
vided a Controul upon the Action of every Officer Employed
therein) the concurrence of the Collectors appointed by the
Commissioners of the Customes in his Maj'ty's respective
Plantations should also be made necessary to so important an
Act as that of Signing Certificates for clearing of Ships his
Maj'ty taking the same Into Consideracon is here by pleased
to declare his will and pleasure And you are accordingly hereby
required to take care that the Navall Officer or Officers in His
Maj'ty's Colony of Virginia under your Government do give
Secvirity for the due Discharge of his or their Trust to such
Person as is or shall be appinted by the Commissioners of the
Customes for that purpose according to the Direction of the
forementioned Act of parliament and likewise that you do not
admitt or allow any Certificates signed by the Navall Officer
or Officers aforesaid for the Clearing of Ships within His Maj'
ty's said Colony of Virginia to be Valid and Effectuall for
that End without the Concurrence of the Collector appointed
there by the Commissioners of his Maj'ty's Customes
By their Excellencies Command.
Ja : Vernon.
ORDER IN REGARD TO CAPTAIN KIDD
Whitehall 23d November 1698.
S'r
The Lords Justices being informed by severall advices from
the East Indies of the notorious Pyracies committed by Cap't
Kidd Commander of the Adventure Galley and of his having
Seized and plundered divers Ships in those seas As their Ex-
cellency's have given Order to the Commander of the Squadron
fitted out for the East Indies that he use his Utmost Endeavors
to pursue and seize the Said Kidd if he continue still in those
parts so likewise they have Commanded me to signify their
Direccons to the respective Govemours of the Colony's under
his Maj'ty's Obedience in America that they give strict Orders
COUNCIL PAPERS, 1698. 71
and take partioilar Care for apprehending the said Kidd and
his Accomplices whenever he or they shall arrive in any of the
said Plantations as likewise that they Secure his Ship and all
the effects therein it being their Excellency's intention that right
be done to those who have been injured and rob'd by the said
Kidd and that he and his Associates be prosecuted with the
utmost Vigour of Law You are to be carefuU thereof duly to
observe the said Direccons And if the said Kidd or any of his
Accomplices happen to be seized within the Province under
your Government You are forthwith to transmitt an account
thereof hither and take care that the said persons Ship and
Effects be secured till his Maj'ty's pleasure be known con-
cerning them. I am S'r
Your most faithfull
himible Servant
Ja: Vernon.
To Francis Nicholson Esq'r
His Maj'ty's Lieutenant and
Govemour Generall of his
Maj'ty's Colony and Dominion
of Virginia in
America
Ja Vernon Exam'd P. B. Harrison.
THE SEAL OF THE COLONY
William R.
(L. S.)
To our Trusty and well beloved Francis Nicholson Esq'r
Our Lieutenant and Govemour Generall of our Colony and
Dominion of Virginia in America and to our Lieutenant Gov-
emour and Commander in Chief of our said Colony for the
time being, Greeting. With this You will receive a Seal pre-
pared by our Order for the use of our Government of Virginia
which seal is Engraven with Our Armes, Garter and Crown
with this Inscription round the same En Dat Virginia-Quintum.
72 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
And our Will and Pleasure is, and we do hereby authorize you
and our Lieutenant Govemour or Commander in Chief of our
Said Colony for the time being to Affix the said Seal to all
patents and Grants of Lands and to all publick Acts and instru-
ments of Government which shall be made and pased in Our
Name within our said Colony and that it be to all intents and
purposes of the same force and Validity as any former Seal ap-
pointed for the publick use of the Government in oiu- said
Colony hath heretofore been which former Seals are not to be
made use of or Affixed to any Publick Act or Instruments what-
soever but to be Defaced and broken. Given at our Court at
Kensington the 10th day of Janu'ry 1698. In the Tenth year
of oiu" Reign.
By his Maj'ty's Command
Ja: Vernon.
GOVERNOR NICHOLSON TO THE GOVERNOR OF
NORTH CAROLINA
Virginia, James City, May 3, 1699«
Honorable Sir
I received Yours to me of the 16th of March last, In answer
to an Order of myselfe in Councill, Dated at James City the
24th day of February last, transmitted unto You by Coll.
Quary ptu-suant also to what You advise in that Letter, upon
the 28th of the last moneth arrived at this Place Mr. Akehurst
and Cap't Walker the Gentlemen appointed by You and the
Councill of Your Province to agree upon and Settle the bounds
between this His Maj'ts Colony and Dominion of Virginia
and Your said Province of Carolina. I shall at all times be very
ready to do anything that is requisite on my Parte for the per-
fecting of a Worke which I talvC to be so very Necessary and so
much contributing to the Peace and Quiet of both these Col-
onyes; But at present it is the Opinion of myself and his Maj'ts
Honorable Councill of state for this his Colony and Dominion
of Virginia that I cannot safely Comiconate any persons to
treat with the Gent'n from your Province about this affair.
Wee have not any Design of Delaying so good a Worke but
COUNCIL PAPERS, 1698. 73
we are Desirous that when it is done it may be Effectual and
Valid in all time coming and that wee think the Gent, ap-
pointed by you are not sufficiently Qualified to do. Our Rea-
son for this Opinion is grounded upon an act of Parliament of
the seventh and Eighth Years of his present Maj'ty Intituled
an act for Preventing frauds and regulating abuses in the plan-
tacon trade which I have given to the Gent, for Your More
particular Satisfacon herein in this act it is Enacted that all
the then present Govemours or Comanders in Cheif of any
English Colonyes or Plantacons shall before the 25 day of
March 1697 take a solemn Oath &c. as in the said act is More
at large Directed; and by another Clause in the said act it is
Enacted that all Govemours Nominated and Appointed by
any persons or proprietors who shall be Intituled to make such
Nominacon shall be allowed and approved of by his Maj'ty
his Heires and successours Signifyed by his or their order in
Councill who shall take the Oaths Enjoyned by this Or any
other Act to be taken by the Govemours or Commanders in
Cheif in other his Maj'ty 's Colonyes and plantacons; By this
act you may please to observe it is required that you be ap-
proved by his Maj'ty to be signifyed as is aforemenconed and
that you likewise take the said Oaths before you can be suf-
ficiently Qualified to Execute the Office of Govemour or Com-
ander in Cheif of any Propriety, and for as much as it doth
not appear that you have Complyed therewith Wee are of
Opinion that it is not convenient for us to treat with any Per-
son or Persons by you appointed to agree upon and settle this
affair between these two Colonyes; Therefore all further pro-
ceedings therein Must for the present be suspended untill you
can give an Account thereof to those persons for whom You
are Concemed and shall Obtain such Approbacon and Quali-
fycacon as by the act of Parliament aforemenconed is directed
and required I on m}' parte shall take care that our proceed-
ings Herein may be layd before his Majesty for his further
comands thereupon and I hope by the next fall to receive such
Direccons as shall be thought necessary; I desire lilcewise that
you on your parte will take Care to obtain such Qualificacons
and Instruccons as are requisite for you by the Consent of Mr.
74 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Akehurst and Cap't Walker I have Caused the Exemplificacon
of your proprietor's Charter to be recorded here so that there
will not be occasion any more to hazard that Upon so long a
Journey as to send it hither for our Satisfaccon therein.
I must further acquaint you that by Comicon under the great
Seal of the high Admiralty of England Dated the 26 day of
June in the Year 1697 — Directed unto Sir Edmund Andros
Knight His Maj'ts late Lieutenant and Govemour Generall
of Virginia and^ to His Maj't's Lieutenant and Govemour Gen-
erall of Virginia for the time being His Maj'ty hath been pleased
to Grant unto his said Lieutenant and Govemoiu" Generall of
Virginia for the time being Power and Authority to appoint
Judges Registers Marshalls and Advocates for the Admiralty
Courts of Virginia Carolina and the Bahama Islands by Virtue
of which Said Comicon the said Sir Edmimd Andros by severill
comicons did appoint the Hon'ble Edward Hill Esq'r judge,
Miles Gary Gent. Register, Michael Sherman Gent, Marshall,
and John Taylor Gent. Advocate, of the Court of Admiralty in
this His Maj'ts Colony and Dominion of Virginia and the
Province of North Carolina I herewith send you Copyes of the
said Severall Comicons for your better Informacon therein and
I do recomend the same to your care that when any matters
shall happen requiring the Presence and Service of the said
judge and Officers, you will give me timely Intimacon thereof
that I may give such direccons as shall be necessary therein-
which is all at present from
Yoiu* Affectionate Friend and
Humble Servant
ff. Nicholson.
For His Maj'tys Speciall Service
To
The Hon'ble Thomas Harvey Esq'r
Deputy Govemour of His Maj'ts
Province of North Carolina.
COUNCIL PAPERS, 1698. 76
THE PRESIDENT ETC. OF WILLIAM & MARY
COLLEGE TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
To the honourable The Speaker and Gentlemen of the house
of Burgesses.
We the president, Masters and Scholars of the Royal Col-
ledge of William and Mary in Virginia, being deeply sensible
of the great honoxir lately conferred on this Colledge by the
hon'ble House of Burgesses first in graceing our Scholastick
exercises with your own countenance and presence on May day
last, and then in giveing so favourable a Judgement and Charac-
ter of the proficiency of our Youth in their Studies and in re-
commending the said Colledge to our good Govemours care and
favour in your most hearty address made to his Excellency
for that purpose : Desire leave in all humility to offer our most
thankfull acknowledgements for the same and withall to as-
sure this hon'ble House that nothing can so effectually en-
courage us to go on in the chearfull prosecution of our studies
as the favourable countenance of so great Patrons as we hope
to find both in his Excellency and the present Generall Assem-
bly for which good understanding among your selves and joint
endeavours to carry on this and all other good works We doubt
not ye will have the blessings and prayers of all good men to
join with those of
Your most obliged humble Servants
James Blair Presid't.
Mongs Inglis humanity prof:
John Hodges Usher.
In name & at the desire of the rest of our Condisciples
Orlando Jones ]
Henry Harrison I o , i
T 1, A 11 f Scholars
John Allen '|
John Jones J
The Answer sent by Major Custis and Cap't. Wilson.
The house have sent us to acquaint you that they have read
your address it is received mighty kindly and they hope you
you will always merit their good Esteem.
76 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO THE GOVERNOR
To his Excellency Francis Nicholson Esq'r His Maj'ts Lieu-
tenant and Govemour Generall of Virginia.
The humble Address of the Councill and Burgesses of this
present Generall Assembly
May it please your Excellency
Wee the Coimcill and Burgesses of the present General As-
sembly being sensible of the great Mischeifs and Inconveniences
that Accrew to the Inhabitants of this His Maj'ts Colony and
Dominion of Virginia By killing of Whales within the Capes
thereof Doe in all humility take Leave to Represent the same
unto Your Excellency And withall to acquaint you That by
the Means thereof Great Quantity es of Fish are poysoned and
destroyed And the Rivers also made noisome and Offensive
For prevention of which Evills In regard the Restraint of the
Killing of Whales is a Branch of His Majestyes Royall Pre-
rogative.
Wee humbly Pray that Your Excellency will be pleased to
Issue out a Proclamation forbiding All Persons whatsoever to
Strike or kill any Whales within the Bay of Chesapeake in
the Limits of Virginia which wee hope will prove an Effectual!
means to prevent the many Evills that Arise therefrom.
Richard Lee in behalf of His Majestyes Honorable Councill.
Robert Carter, Speaker.
THE HOUSE OF BURGESSES TO THE KING
To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty
We yo'r Majestyes most Loyall and Obedient Subjects The
Burgesses of the Generall Assembly in yo'r Majestyes most
Antient and great Colony & Dominion of Virginia now As-
sembled, Doe humbly Embrace this Occasion, In the first place
to Congratulate yo'r Majestyes Safe & happy Retume to yo'r
Kingdome of England, haveing first purchased & Secured
through yo'r own personall Valour Conduct and Prudence a
Glorious, Hon'ble and Setled peace not only to Christendome
COUNCIL PAPERS, 1698. 77
but Even by Means of yo'r Wisdome & Mediation between his
Imperiall Majesty and the Grand Signior to the very Turks &
Infidells by which your Majesty has Emimently appeared to
be the Sole & great Arbiter both of Warr and peace in the
largest part of the Known World to Accomplish which you
have not Spared to Expose your own Sacred precious & Royall
person to the Great Hazards & Most Eminent Dangers in
which yo'r Majesty had noe other End than the preservation
& Defence of the true Protestant Religion and the Libertyes
& propertyes of Europe, This Great S'r Altho' we live soere-
mote We are not Ignorant of and long ere this we Should have
Expressed our Sence of the Same by an hiunble Address to yo'r
most Sacred Majesty had we bin in a Capacity as a house of
Burgesses of doeing it before.
In the next place we think our Selves Obleiged in duty to
yo'r Majesty in all humility to Express our deep Sence and to
make a Gratefull Accknowledgm't of your many Royall flav-
ours and bounty's from time to time bestowed upon this your
Ancient and great Colony and Dominion in Generall & upon
yo'r Royall Colledge of William & Mary in P'ticiilar, And
hiunbly to Begg that Continueance of your Royall Grace Fa-
vour & Protection to us & it
We also Accknowledge it our highest Duty to yo'r Majesty to
Retiime our hiunble and unfeigned Thanks to Almighty God
for the preservation & Continuance of your life & health And
it shall be our Daily prayers that yo'r Majesty may have a
Long and Happy Reigne over all yo'r Kingdomes & Domin-
ions, And may all your Loyall Subjects for Ever bear in Mind
the Inestimable Benefits they have received from yo'r Maj-
esty who have (under God) been the Main Bulwark and De-
fence of our Religion Lawes and Libertyes &c'a And it has
alwayes bin the happiness of this Dominion to Deserve the
Character of Loyall & Dutifull Subjects, Soe at this time we
take Leave in most Humble Manner to Assiu-e yo'r Majesty
we will Continue Soe to our Lives End.
Robert Carter, Speaker in
Behalf of the house of Burgesses.
78 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
THE OATH OF A COUNCELLOUR.
You Shall Swear to be a true and faithfull Servant unto the
Kings Majesty as One of His Councni of State and to be aiding
and assisting to His Excellency His Majesties Leiutenant and
Govenour Generall of Virginia; You shall in all things to be
moved treated and debated in the Councill faithfully declare
Your Mind and opinion according to Your heart and Conscience,
and Shall keep Secret all matters comitted and revealed unto
you concerning the Same, and that Shall be treated Secretly in
the Councill, untni Such time as by the Consent of His Maj-
esties Leiutenant and Govenour Generall and the full consent
of the Councill of State there Resident or the Maj'r part of
them, Publicacon Shall be made thereof; You Shall to Your
utmost bear faith and Allegiance to the King's Majesty his
heirs and lawfuU Successors, and Shall assist and Defend all
Jurisdiccons preheminences and Authorities granted imto
His Majesty and annex't imto the Crown against all fforeign
Princes Persons Prelates and Potentates whatsoever And Gen-
erally You Shall act and doe in all things as a faithfull and true
Subject Ought to doe to His Majesty.
Soe help You God.
THE COMMISSION OF THE CLERKE OF THE
GEN'LL ASSEMBLY
VIRGINIA SS.
William the third by the Grace of God King of England
Scotland ffrance and Ireland Defender of the faith &c To
Gent. Greeting We doe by these presents constitute and ap-
point you to be Clerk of the Generall Assembly of this our
Colony and Dominion hereby giveing and granting unto You
full power and authority to your own proper use and behoofe
to take and receive all Salarys ffees and perquisites whatsoever
belonging to the Office of the Clerk of the Generall Assembly
of this Our Colony and Dominion with power to execute and
enjoy all Trusts Services Rights Members and Appurtenances
as to the Said Office are justly and Lawfully belonging in as fuU
COUNCIL PAPERS, 1698. 79
and ample manner to all intents and purposes as any other
Pson heretofore hath or ought to have enjoyed the Same,
To have hold execute and enjoy the Said Office dureing pleasure
Witness Our Trusty and well-beloved ffrancis Nicholson Esq'r
Our Leiutenant and Govenour Generall of Virginia at James-
Town imder the Seal of Our Colony this day of
1699 in the Eleventh Yeare of Our Reign.
THE CLERK OF THE GEN'LL ASSEMBLY HIS
OATH.
You Shall Swear as Clerk of the Gen '11 Assembly of this
His Maj'ts Colony and Dominion of Virginia to which Office
You are appointed by His Excellency faithfully Justly and
uprightly to make true Entries and Joumall's of all Votes
and Proceedings in the Said Gen'll Assembly as from time to
time you Shall receive Orders and Direccons and you Shall
in all thing's according to your best Skill and Judgment Dis-
charge and Execute the Said Office and Trust of Clerk of the
Gen'll Assembly.
Soe help you God.
THE COMMISSION OF THE CLERK OF THE
COUNCILL.
William the third by the Grace of God of England Scotland
ffrance and Ireland King Defender of the faith &c.
Gent. Greeting We doe by these presents Constitute and
appoint you to be Clerk of Our Coimcill in Our Colony and
Dominion of Virginia with power to take and receive to your
own proper use and behoofe all flfees Dues and perquisites to
the Said place usually belonging or appertaining To have and
to hold the Said Office dureing pleasure Witness Our Trusty
and Well-beloved Francis Nicholson Esq'r Our Leiutenant and
Govenor Gen'll of Virginia at James Towne under the Seal of
Our Colony this day of 1699 in the Eleventh
Year of Our Reign.
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THE OATH OF THE CLERK OF THE COUNCILL.
You Shall Swear that you will well and truely Execute the
place of Clerk of the Councill of this His Majesties Dominion
of Virginia to the best of your Judgment and Knowledge You
Shall faithfully Enter all Orders and Shall not discover the
Secrett proceedings of His Excellency the Govenour and Cotm-
cill to any pson whatsoever till the same be otherwise made
Publick but Shall to the best of your Understanding doe all
things relating to the Said place or Office faithfully justly and
honestly.
Soe help you God.
(to be continued)
NOTES AND QUERIES. 81
HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND
QUERIES.
Deed for the Bermudas, 1612.
(Abstract.)
This Indenture made the five and twentieth day of November in
the yeres of the raigne of our most gracious and soveraigne lord James
by the grace of God king of England, Scotland, Fraunce and Ireland,
defender of the faith etc, that is to say of England, Fraunce and Ireland
the tenth, and of Scotland the six and fortieth betweene the Treasurer
and Company of Adventure: s and planters of the Citty of London for
the first Colony in Virginia of the one parte and Sir William Woad,
knight, Sir Dudley Digges, knight. Sir Baptist Hickes, knight, Richard
Martyn of the middle Temple London Esquire, John Wolstenholme
Esquire, Richard Chamberlyn, Robert Offley, Robert Johnson, Jerome
Heydon, George Scott and George Barkley of London, merchauntes of
tothcr parte witnesseth that whereas it pleased the kinges most excellent
maiesty by his letters patent bearing date at Westminster the twelveth
day of march in the nynth yere of his maiesties raigne of England (1609)
10) Fraunce and Ireland and of Scotland the five and forthieth of his es-
peciall grace knowledge and meere mocion to give graimt and confirme
vnto the said Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and planters of
the Citty of London for the first Colony in Virginia and to their heires
and successors for ever. All and singular those Islands Whatsoever
situate and being in any part of the Ocean seas bordering vpon the coast
of the said first Colony in Virginia and being within three hundred leagues
of any of the partes heretofore graunted to the said Tresurer and Com-
pany by his maiesties former letters patents therein recited and
being within or between the one and forty and Thirty degrees of Nor-
therly latitude together with all and singular soyles landes, groundes,
havens, portes, rivers, waters, fishinges, mynes, and myneralles as well
royall mynes of gold and silver as other mynes and myneralles pearles
precious stones quarries and all and singular other comodities iuris-
dictions royalties priviledge franchises and phemynences both within
the said Tract of land vpon the mayne and also within the said Island
and seas adioyning Whatsoever and thereto or thereaboute both by sea
and land being or scituated which his maiesty by his patentes might or
could graunt and in as ample and sort as his majesty or any his
noble progenitors have heretofore.
82 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Close Roll, II James I W. pte 40.
Virginians at Trinity College, Cambridge,
Admissions 1701-1800.
Carter, John, son of Robert Carter of Virginia, America. School,
Mile End, London (Mr. Maltaire). Age 18 Fellow-Commoner, Jan-
uary 12, 1714. Tutor, Mr. Baker, [Matriculated, 1714. Did not grad-
uate].
Taylor," Daniel, son of Daniel Taylor, Judge of Virginia, America.
Educated at the College of William and Mary, Virginia. Age 21. From
St. John's College whence he had matriculated, 1724. Sizar, October 14,
1724. Tutor Mr. Parue [B. A. 1727].
Ambler, John, Son of Richard Ambler of York Town, Virginia,
America. School Wakefield, Yorkshire (Mr. Clarke) Age 19. Pen-
sioner, October 15, 1753. Tutor, Mr. Whisson. [Matriculated 1753.
Did not graduate].
Beverley, Robert, son of William Beverley of Virginia, America.
School Wakefield, Yorkshire (Mr. Clarke). Age 17. Pensioner, May
19, 1757, Tutor, Mr. Whisson, [Matriculated, 1757. Did not graduate.]
Smith, Thomas, son of Gregory Smith of Virginia, America.
School, Wakefield, Yorkshire (Mr. Atkinson) Age 18. Pensioner,
April 21, 1759. Tutor Mr. Whisson [Matriculated 1759; Scholar 1760;
B. A. 1763.]
Riddell, George, son of Andrew Riddel! of Enfield, Middlesex.
School, Hampton, Virginia, America (Dr. Warrington), Age 17. Pen-
sioner, September 29, 1769. Tutor, Mr. Postlethwaite, [Matriculated
1770; Scholar 1771; B. A. 1774.
Beverley, William, son of Robert Beverley of Blandfield, Essex.
School, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia, North America (Mr.
Denholm). Age 18. Pensioner, April 4, 1781. Tutors Mr. Therond &
Mr. Cranke. [Did not Matriculate or graduate].
Skipwith, Gray, Son of Peyton Skipwith of Virginia, America.
School, Eton (Dr. Davies'). Age 19. Fellow Commoner, November
25, 1790. Tutor. Mr. Jones. [Did not matriculate or graduate].
Portraits of F. S. Key.
My mother, who was the eldest child of Francis Scott Key, author
of "The Star-Spangled Banner," and who died September 9th, 1897, at
the age of nearly 94 years, told me that John Randolph of Roanoke and
her father had their portraits painted for exchange, but that Randolph
did not like Key's portrait and gave it to her. It is of small size.
NOTES AND QUERIES. 83
Now I notice in Garland's Life of John Randolph of Roanoke, in
a letter from Randolph to Key on page 86 of Volume 2, May 7th, 1816,
he writes of the intention of giving the artist — Wood, of Washington,
D. C. — a last sitting for his portrait and his expectation of having Key's
portrait in return, and in a letter dated Richmond, April 29, 1818, on
page 96, he says : "On my arrival here the day before yesterday I found
the picture and the picture frame which poor L. left for me. Wood has
again failed, but not so entirely as at first. It is you in some of your
humors, but neither your serious nor more cheerful face. It shall hang,
however, near my bed, and I hope will prove a benefit as well as a pleas-
ure to me."
Now it seems likely that the picture which Randolph gave to my
mother was Wood's first and less successful attempt, and if so, that there
may be in Virginia his second and better portrait of Key, which Ran-
dolph so actually received, framed, at Richmond, and was about to take
to his home. Can any of your readers tell where such a portrait may be
looked for? It would probably be a small one.
What has become of John Randolph's effects?
Randolph's portrait was in possession of one of Francis Scott Key's
grandchildren a few years ago.
Mc Henry Howard,
901 St. Paul St., Baltimore, Md.,
7th December, 1912.
My mother told me anecdotes about Randolph, who was often at
her father's house in Georgetown and was warmly attached to her father
and his family. On one occasion he was jostled on the street in Wash-
ington by some elaborately dressed member of a foreign diplomatic
corps. He turned to his servant Juba and asked in his high voice, "Who's
that Juba?" "Dunno, Massa." "Puppy, Juba, hey Juba?" "Speck so,
Massa." But I think these anecdotes have appeared in print.
I have some fine engravings which Randolph brought back from
Europe and gave to my mother. I have also a number of letters which
passed between Randolph and Key — from each to the other.
NOTES FROM THE RECORD OF CHARLES CITY COUNTY.
[The records of Charles City County suffered greatly at the hands
of the soldiers of M'Clellan's army. Books and papers of all kinds up
to about 1735 were destroyed or carried away. The same fate befel all
the will books prior to 1770, and so far as the compiler could discover,
there are no deed books prior to 1767 left. The order books (court pro.
ceedings) beginning about 1735 are fairly continuous to the end of the
colonial period. Of dates later than the Revolution a number of books
remain as do many marriage bonds].
84 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Lyddall Bacon deputy clerk 1767.
Deed from John Edloe of Charles City to Benjamin Dancy of same,
March 1, 1768.
Mordecai Debnam Clerk of Charles City 1768.
Deed, May 4, 1768, from John Hardyman of Charles City to his
daughter Elizabeth Eppes of same, conveying two negroes.
Deed, April 1, 1768, from Mary Eppes, widow, of Charles City, to
William Forbom, of same, who had married her daughter Mary Ann and
had two children Andrew and Mary Ann Forbom.
Deed, Oct. 29, 1768, from Littleberry Cocke, Gent., of Charles
City, to his daughter Rebecca, conveying six negroes in trust for said
Littleberry and Rebecca Hubbard his wife, during their lives and then
to go to their said daughter Rebecca (Mrs Rebecca Cocke had before
been the wife of Henry Soane).
Deed, May 1, 1769, from Edward Munford and Betty his wife of
Halifax Co. N. C, to Paul Jones of Charles City Covmty, Va., conveying
a tract of land on Tomahim Creek in Charles City Co., devised by Ed-
ward Brodnax to Betty Brodnax now Betty Monfort, for her life.
Signed Edward and Betty Montfort.
Deed, April 15, 1769 from Travis Harwood
Account of estate of Temple Eppes. deceased, with Henrietta
Maria Eppes; an item is for board of Lewellin Eppes 1767-1769, and
another for the board of an infant.
Deed, July 7, 1769, from William Hill and Mary his wife, of Wil-
liamsburg, to Charles Jeffrey Smith, Master of Arts, of Long Island,
N. Y., conveying 1700 acres in Charles City.
Deed, Aug. 12, 1769 from William Byrd of Westover, to Joseph
Farrell and William Jones of Bristol [This is a deed conveying many
slaves, and all the silver plate at Westover to secure debts. An abstract
of this deed was printed in this magazine IX, 81, 82].
Deed, June 8, 1773, between Rebecca Cocke of Charles City Co.,
James Bray Johnson of James City Co., and Rebecca Hubbard Cocke
of Charles City Co., being a marriage Contract between the said Reb-
ecca Cocke and J. B. Johnson.
ORDER BOOK.
June 2, 1754, William and Littleberry Hardyman, justices:
Travis Harwood, infant orphan of Samuel Harwood chose John
Jacob Dainzee his guardian.
August 1, 1754, William Edloe, Captain, and George Minge, lieu-
tenant, qualified as militia officers.
Petition of William Brodnax, administrator with will annexed,
of Edward Brodnax , deceased.
(P. 139) John Edloe, Major, and Littleberry Cocke, Captain, qual-
ified as militia officers.
NOTES AND QUERIES. 85
Inventory of estate of Richard Cocke, deceased, presented by
Alice Cocke.
Nov. 5, 1755. Philip Edmondson appointed guardian of William,
Richard and Mary, orphans of William Cole, deceased
(P. 2) John Stith qualified as lieutenant Colonel of Militia.
Inventory of Joseph Harwood, deceased, filed.
Will of Major Samuel Harwood proved by the confession of his
son Samuel Harwood, Jr., to have been burnt and destroyed by said
S. H. Jr., since his father's death.
June 1737.
Present : Henry Soane, Francis Hardyman, Benjamin Harrison,
Samuel Harwood, Jr., and James Eppes, justices.
Deed from James Barret and Sarah his wife.
Will of Littleberry Eppes presented for probate by his executor
Thomas Eppes.
Deed from Jones Stokes.
Mary, relict of Edward Cocke, deceased, came into Court and
made oath that he died intestate.
After taking the depositions of Samuel Harwood the eldest, and
Samuel Harwood son of Thomas Harwood, the Court ordered that
Samuel Harwood son and heir of Major Samuel Harwood, deceased,
bring into Court the last will of the decedant.
Suit, John Ravenscroft vs Richard Holland.
Suit, Richard Holland vs Richard Kennon, administrator of Joseph
Harwood, deceased.
July 1737.
Samuel Harwood the eldest and Samuel Harwood Jr. , son of Thom-
as Harwood, deceased, being summoned by a former order to disclose
what they knew of the will of Major Samuel Harwood, deceased, Samuel
Harwood, the son and heir of the deceased, produces a writing which he
makes oath is the memorandum of the will.
August 1737.
Francis Dancey, Justice.
Edward Pegram, a youth resident in the covmty.
October 1737.
John Williams, John Mingo are appointed justices. Captain Sam-
uel Harwood, Jr., appointed sheriff.
John Eppes, son amd orphan of John and Tabitha Eppes, deceased,
chose Col. B. Harrison, his guardian.
April 1740.
Edmund Eppes, Captain, qualified as a militia officer, and Edmund
Eppes and Francis Dancey qualified as justices.
Will of James Eppes, proved by Edmund Eppes, executor.
May 1740.
Samuel Harwood, and Samuel Harwood, Jr., justices.
Inventory of John Eppes, deceased, recorded.
86 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
June 1740.
Captain Samurl Harwood, of Toryham, appointed to take the
tithables in Wilmington precinct.
July 1740.
Will of Henry Edloe presented by James Edloe, executor.
August 1740.
Petition of John Donaldson for administration on the estate of
Thomas Gressit.
Stephen Dewey "His Maj. Attorney General for this County."
Edward Terrill presented for not going to church.
July 1741.
Suit, Robert Poythress and Robert and Thomas Poythress, ex-
ecutors of Joshua Poythress, deceased, ts Benjamin Harrison.
August 1741.
Edmund Eppes produces a commission from Hon. James Blair,
President, to be captain of a troop of horse, and qualifies.
David Stokes qualifies as Captain of foot.
William Irby qualifies as Captain and Richard Walton as Ensign.
Francis Dancey produces a commission from Hon. James Blair,
Esq. to be sheriflF and qualifies.
The will of Francis Hardyman proved by Richard Kennon and
David Stokes, two of the executors (A Francis Hardyman had been fore-
man of a jury at this term of Court).
Nov. 1741.
Deposition of Abraham Archer, of York Co., aged about 49.
Dec. 1741.
Deed from Mr. Samuel Harwood, Jr., of Weyanoke, and consent
of his wife Agnes.
Feb. 1741 [Old Style!
On the motion of John Hardyman he is appointed guardian to his
brother Littlebury Hardyman, orphan of Famcis Hardyman, deceased.
March 1741.
The last will of Col. Drury Stith proved by Susanna and William
Stith, two of the executors.
Jane Hardyman appointed guardian of her two children James and
Martha Hardyman children of her deceased husband, Francis Hardy-
man.
April 1742.
Will of Peter Talbot proved.
May 1742.
George Baskervylle, Francis and John Hardyman, &c. on grand
jury.
June 1742.
Jane Hardyman summoned to produce a fuller accoimt of the estate
of John Cross, her former husband.
(to be continued.)
NOTES AND QUERIES. 87
Richard C. Anderson.
In the Virginia Magazine Vol. XX, No. 2, April 1912, p. 191, it is
made to appear that Richard C. Anderson was Major in the 6th Virginia
Feb. 10, 1778.
He never was in the sixth.
"Department of State,
Washington, D. C.
Richard C. Anderson, Captain Commanding 5th Regiment 2d,
June, 1778," W. Hunter, 2d Assist. Sec'y- Commission (which Heitman
says he saw) Richard C. Anderson, Major 1st Va. to date from Feb. 10,
1778, issued at Philadelphia 20th March 1779, by His Ex'cy John Jay.
He went into the 1st Virginia and remained as a Major of the 1st
until after the war (having for a few weeks obtained permission to be Ad-
jutant-General for General Nelson) — Edward L. Anderson.
Virginia Soldiers in the Revolution.
It is again a subject of regret that pressure of other work compels
Messrs Flagg and Waters to postpone their next instalment to the April
Number.
Poindexter— Jones.
In vol. XX No. 2. April 1912, this Mag. p. 222, last paragraph is
found "Thomas Poindexter, justice of Louisa county, 1766, married Lucy,
daughter of Gabriel Jones, 'the Valley Lawyer,' and had issue: 1,
John, 2. Thomas, bom 1760, 3. Gabriel, born 1758."
I have seen a number of publications giving a brief sketch of this
Gabriel Jones, and naming his children, but I have never before read
that he had a daughter named Lucy. It would have been impossible for
a daughter of his to have been a mother in 1758 or in 1760, for the reason
that he did not marry until 1749. (see Publications Southern History
Association vol. II No. 2. April 1898, pp. 157-158; Buckncrs of Virginia
and allied families of Strother and Ashby, by Crozier, pp. 222-223.
Margaret Strother, daughter of William StrotherS (Wm.^, Wm. 0.
and Margaret Watts, married first, George Mason, April 6, 1744, (see
Overwharton Parish Register, Stafford County), married second, Gab-
riel Jones, "The Valley Lawyer," Oct. 6, 1749. (see Annals of Augusta
County, Va., by James A. Waddell, Supplement 1888. pp. 392-3.)
There were several different Gabriel Joneses in Virginia during the
lifetime of "The Valley Lawyer." Capt. Gabriel Jones lived in Culpcper
county where he died in 1777, testate, and I have just received from the
records at Culpeper C. H., a brief abstract of his will as follows
OS VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Will Book 'B' pp. 229-230, will of Gabriel Jones, date,
3rd. Sept. 1776, Mentions Ann Waller as grandmother of Arm
Jones, his daughter. If said Ann dies without issue her part
to be divided between my living wife and four children," —
Robert, Gabriel, Francis Slaughter, Mary. "In case all
die without issue I desire the same may goe Descend & be
Divided amongst my four sisters, Lucy Poindexter, Betty
Green, Jane Gray, and Dorothy Johnston." (signed) "Gab-
riel Jones (L. S.)"
"Witnesses, B. Johnston, Wm. Hawkins, Jr., Robt.
Gaines, Proven Oct. 20, 1777." (see Notes on Culpeper County,
Va., by Green, Part II. p. 51.)
For history of this Jones Family, by Judge John W. Jones, see
same book. Part II. pp. 89-94.
An honorable descendant of this Jones family was the late Judge
Wm. C. Jones of St. Louis, Mo., who for many years was my warm per-
sonal friend.
Henry Strother,
Ft. Smith, Arkansas.
Prince Edward County tn the French War.
John Morton, Gentleman, who was in the late war between Great
Britain and France a Lieutenant in the company of volunteers. By order
from Governor Dinwiddie joined Major Andrew Lewis' detachment from
the first Virginia Regiment of Regulars raised in the then Colony now
Commonwealth, came into Court and made oath that he was an inhab-
itant of Virginia, and that he served in the office aforesaid, and that this
is the first time of his making claim to lands under the King of Great
Britain's Proclamation of October 1763, or obtaining a certificate there-
for, and that during his continuance in the service he was governed by
the Articles of War which governed regular soldiers and received pay as
of Lieutenant of Regulars. Ordered that the same be certified.
Thomas Morton, 2nd Lieutenant in same service, made oath to
the same as above. Ordered that the same be certified.
Alexander Le Grand, a sergeant in same service, made oath to the
same as above. Ordered that the same be certified.
Richard Foster, a private in the (Company) commanded by Cap-
tain Samuel Overton, proved in open court that he is a native of Virginia,
that he continued in the service during the time of his enlistment and
that this is the first time of making claim to lands under the King of
Great Britain's Proclamation of October 1763 before any court of record
or of obtaining a certificate, therefore ordered that the same be certified.
Henry Pigg, a private in the Second Virginia Regiment, made
oath, &c. &c.
NOTES AND QUERIES. 89
Joseph Truman, a private in Captain Obediah Woodson's Company
of Vulunteers, came into Court and made oath, &c. &c. Order Book,
Prince Edward County, January Court, 1780, P. 67.
Freeman Lewelling, John Gaulding, Charles Howell, James Fos-
ter, privates in the command of the late Honble William Byrd, Esqr.,
assign their rights to lands (under the proclamation or the King of Great
Britain, October 1763), to Robert Goode Gent.
Jeremiah Penix (Penick) heir at law of Edward Penix, private under
the command of the late Honble William Byrd, Esquire, assigns his
right to his brother's land, under proclamation of October 1763, to
Robert Goode. Order Book, Prince Edward County, February Court,
1780, p. 68.
Declarations of : Jonathan Smith, 1st Lieutenant, John Petty,
[?1, and Bryant Mc Dearmonroe, privates in the command of the late
Colonel Byrd; Samuel Burton, private, in Colonel Washington's com-
mand; William Carter, Ezekiel Hendrick, Hezekiah Coleman, Daniel
Murray, John Smith, John Tibbs, privates. Colonel Byrd's Command.
Order Book, Prince Edward County, March Court 1780, p. 69.
Declarations of Philemon Hawkins, soldier in the command of the
late Colonel Byrd; and of Charles Hcrvey, command of Major Andrew
Lewis, in the year 1755, Order Book, Prince Edward County, April Court
1780 and May Court, 1780. p. 73 and p. 77.
[John Morton and Thomas Morton were relations, possibly bro-
thers. For John Morton's services id the Revolution, see Magazine,
XVn, 305. Richard Foster and John Morton were Charter trustees of
Hampden Sidney College in 1783. In 1780 Richard Foster was chosen a
vestryman of St. Patrick's parish, Prince Edward County. John Gauld-
ing, or one of his name, is still remembered in Prince Edward County —
there is a jungle on Little Buffalo Creek that the old inhabitants cal
Galdentown.]
Alfred J. Morrison.
BAYLOR LETTERS.
[After the treaty between the United States and Great Britian
which authorized them, many suits were brought in the U. S. Courts by
citizens of Great Britain against citizens of the United States to recover
pre-Revolutionary debts. Many of these appear in the old records of
the United States Courts at Richmond and the papers recorded in the
various cases contain much matter of interest. The letters which fol-
low, down to the letter of Edmund Pendleton are copied from the record
of a suit against the estate of Col. John Baylor, of "Newmarket", Caro-
90 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
line Co. It is evident that, when copied into the record, portions of
the letters had become illegible. The Pendleton and Frere letters were
furnished by the late A. G. Baylor.
Col. John Baylor was bom May 12, 1705, and died April 16, 1772.
He was educated at Putney Grammar School and Caius College, Cam-
bridge; married Frances, daughter of Jacob Walker, and had (with
other issue) a son, John, bom Sept. 4, 1750, and died Feb. 5, 1808. He
married Nov. 8, 1778, It St. Olave, Hart Street, London, Frances, daugh-
ter of John Norton, of Gould Square, London. Like his father he was
educated at Putney and Caius. The relationship to the Freres was
through John Norton's mother.
Col. Baylor, the elder, lived in a manner which, followed by the
troubled times of Revolution, hopelessly involved his estate. His son
on his return to Virginia had to sell much property. The famous Fear-
nought was only one of many horses imported by John Baylor, Sr.
A genealogy of the family was published in this Magazine VI,
197&c.,317&c.]
MRS. FRANCES BAYLOR TO JOHN BAYLOR.
Virginia New-Market
25. May 1770
My dearest Johnny,
By Mr. Morse I rec'd yr. very kind & dutiful letter
and I make no Doubt it would be very agreeable to you to hear oftener
from me, but when I consider you hear often from yr dear daddy & well
know what a scribe I am [illegible] will excuse it.
I often read yrs. to Mr. Baylor [illegible] greatly to find what an
Improvement you [illegible] made in yr studies and could I but see you
now & [illegible] and should be heartily satisfied but when I consider
5 years absence without a single glance it almost distracts
me but my dear child hope to God all will be for the best.
If you are to be away I highly approve of yr. going to Cambridge
The most renowned Seminary of learning in all England.
My dear it does give me more Pleasure to hear of yr health which
God of his infinite mercy continue than I can express.
I have by several appor's. heard that yr. affected side is much
amended for which God of his infinite mercy be praised.
I am extremely sorry you have been disappointed in not getting
the fine choice hams, cyder old brandy and fine Maderia which were
packed up & sent to Ayletts Warehouse for you — you may depend upon
a nother attempt this year.
Pray finish your education, my dear as soon as possible for we
all cannot bear any longer without seeing you.
I shall write again by Capt. Robertson. We caught a great many-
redd and Mock'g Birds but by one accident or other lost them all.
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The whole Family desire to be remembered to you though none
more so than my dear Johnny yr. most tender & aflfec'e
Mother,
Frances Baylor
From Col. Baylor,
Virginia 18 July 1764
Mr. John Backhouse,
Sir,
By Capt. Quincey I rec'd yrs. covering acct, sales
and Invoice of goods with which I am highly pleased also very fine horse
Fearnought who is much admired by every gentleman that he is a very
great Bargain & had he arrived one month sooner would have been much
more so. Upon the whole I acknowledge myself much obliged to Mr.
Hales and yourself for yr excellent choice ***** By Capt. Quincey
I send you forty and by Clarke ten hhds. of choice heavy stem'd Tobacco
which I am in hopes you will think a large remittance notwithstanding
I have and shall be oblig'd to draw some Bills on them one to Mr. James
Bowie for £100 and 1 to Capt. Quincey for £40. Will you not be aston-
ished when I tell you that I have £3,000 due to me in this country and
am oblig'd to draw on you for which reason I am determined to sell most
of my Horses, Mares, & Colts of which I have the same value and turn
them into slaves— as there is no getting cash here for anything else but
Bills of Ex's
Poor Virg'a what art thou come to? and held in
derision by the merchants of Great Britain, particularly those of the
Metropolis and the Factors of Glasgow. Surely this will open the eyes
of my dear countrymen and make them more frugal for the future. * ♦ *
I am sorry to trouble you but must begg (in case of an acct. to
the Ma'h* [Ship Marlborough] which God forbid) you will "be kind
eneough to send a duplicate of my acct. of sales & Invoice by Clarke
that I may know my fate.
Let me entreat you to lend a gracious ear to my Petition in be-
half of my dear Friend Col'o B. Moore * * * *You may depend my as-
sistance shall never be wanting towards the dispatch of yr. ships &
perhaps much greater than you expect in a year or two as we do rise
though slowly every year.
Be so good as to give me yr. opinion of Hemp & Bar Iron not on
my own acct but for my friend Col. Moore
Yours J. B.
The following order is attached to this letter.
3 " 4'D nails. 4 pr. girls shoes for 7 years old
10 " lO'D " 2 " Morocco shoes
16 " 8'D " The same for one of 5 " "
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3 '
" 20'D «
6 prs.
boys steel buckles
3
« 4>D «
&CCC
10
" 8'D «
10
« lo'D "
3
« 20'D «
200
yds best white Plums
K?)
100
« « «
550 Midg cotton
From John Parke Custis to Col. Baylor
Abingdon Aug 15th 1752
Dear Colo.
You will confer a particular favour on me by furnishing me
with a small quantity of clover seed
If I am not mistaken you once informed me you grew a good deal
of red clover and offered me seed. ******
I will thank you for the quantity generally allowed to an acre of
good land.
Mrs. Custis presents her compts to yourself and joins with me in
presenting them to Mrs. Baylor.
I am Dr Colo, your affect friend and
very obdt servt
J. P. Custis.
From Col. Baylor
Mr. Sam'l Waterman
Virginia Sept. 4th 1765
Virginia Sept. 4th 1765
Sir,
By Capt Teason I rec'd yrs. accompa'g an-
other fine Mare from Mr. Hodghkins to whom I shall write fully on that
head, he has very industriously and with great pains collected me full
satisfaction relative to the mare you so kindly sent me * * *
Could you believe that Mr. Backhouse has render'd me sales
£5 per hhd. more for Tob's made on the same Plantations than Mr.
Cary and indeed db'le to one of my particular Friends.
How comes it about that London the Publick Mart of the whole World
should fall so short of Liverpool.
I am not unacquainted that you have large consignments of Tob-
'os & yr. modest refusal in making application to me endears me the
more to you & shall I keep the mare shall make you a proper Remit-
tance in choice stem'd Tob'os & the more readily when I call to mind
NOTES AND QUERIES. 93
what our good secretary has inform 'd me that mine & my Father's
par'r Friend Mr. Haswell was yr. uncle & whose Memory I shall always
revere, I am Sir most respectfully
Yr. much oblig'd & Hble serv't
J. B.
From Col Baylor
Virginia Aug't ye 28 1761
Mr. John Backhouse
Sir,
My last was by Captain Twentyman in which
I made a very small add'n to my Invoice & then wrote you that I should
shortly take a view of my mountain crop from whence I am just returned
highly delighted with the pleasing prospect of an ex-ty fine crop so much
indeed that it has enbolden'd me provided Quincey gets home safe and
there should be a peace this Fall to try once more for an Ex'y fine
Horse to cross the Breed of Shock [and ?] Sober John which I can sell to
advantage & have for that purpose selected a few out of the Horse Race
list one of which I should choose — provided he is at least 15h high — a
good Bay strong & beautiful «fe high spirited (Here follows a list of
horses) 4th Mr. Keeps Genesis * ♦ * * He has a fowl sinew & as such
perhaps might be had under 200 — I should be fond of him. ******
With your appr'l I would stretch to the tune cf £400. for an extraordi-
nary one *****
Should you think fitt to grant me this further indulgence it shall
be everlastingly imprinted in my memory & as we are likely to have a
great crop permit me to advise you to have the Malborough here early
in March & let me entreat you whether it brings a horse or not to have
her as early as possible
I am y'rs
J. B.
P. S.
I have wrote
to Mr. T Hales
From Col Baylor,
Mr. John Norton,
Virginia Aug. 14 1765
Dear Sir,
By Capt. Hooper I rec'd yrs & am much
obliged to you for the trouble you have taken ab'ot Hemp- & Peach
Brandy but mention nothing of the Duty & neat Price of the latter of
which I shall this year make about 7 or 8 hu'd Galls & in 3 years expect
to d'ble it. Excuse me from answering Jths of your long letter relating
to Trade interest & c. You well know the great aversion I allways had
not only to that but also to writing of any sort.
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Capt. Hooper will deliver you with this four hh'ds of steme'd
Tob'o & observing the great & frequent congregation of weavers ab't
Westminister should be very of one were I not so deeply in yr debt
* * * I shall leave it to your choice * * *
* * * * which he wrote me he would doe in a few weeks after you left
poor Virg'a The downfall of which seems to me at no great distance un-
less Manufactories & Hemp added to the greatest Frugality & Industry
can save us.
We all join very sincerely in giving you & y'rs. joy of your safe
arrival in London & you & my Dear Sister all imaginable joy of yr. fine
Boy which with oilr Loves to you all
Dr Sir y'rs.
J. B.
From John Baylor to his Father Col. Baylor
London
Feb'y 16 1770
Hon'd Sir,
It is with infinite pleasure I acquaint you that I am in hopes
to succeed in my present intentions, it being the advice of my Friends
when I am settled & which I hope will be in a short Time will give you
[illegible] information on that Head.
Mr. Morse has been kind eneough to promise that he would de-
liver this letter safe to you as it wou'd be a kind of introduction to him
in our Fami.y which he seems to be fond of, and doubt not but he will
comply with his promise.
By Capt. Fox I have wrote you a long Letter which I hope will
be agreeable in every respect, it chiefly concerned the future Plan of
my Education and doubt not but you will take it into proper considera-
tion.
The taxes will be repealed except that of the Tea.
I have nothing more to say at present worth relating.
My Duty to my Mother, Uncle & Avint Burwell. Love to my
Brothers & sisters.
I remain dear Father
Your most Dutiful Son
pr favor of Mr. Morse John Baylor
From Edmtmd Pendleton to Col. Baylor
Feb. 4, 1772.
Dr. Sir,
As I thought you had a good stock of wine, I supposed th^t
article had slipt into yr letter by mistake & exam' the messenger he
s'd you had bottled wine & desired if I could not send any wine both
juggs might be filled with Rimi — From hence I concluded you wanted
some common wine for ordinary use to save yr good & as I have none
NOTES AND QUERIES. 95
but a little in bottles, I send both juggs in Rum of a little that is left of
my old Rum. I have spared you the small jugg for your own use, the
other is not bad, but not quite so mellow.
If the boy is mistaken about the wine and you are out I will share
my small parcel with you rather than you shall suffer. I should have
set off for the Assembly to day if the weather had been tolerable and shall
go as soon as I think I can travel with a degree of safety.
The General business of the country and not any particular oc-
casion calls us to-gether & I suppose the General Court will terminate
our sitting, but I propose if well to visit my family about the 1st of
March.
I wish you sincerely a better state of health & amDr. Sr. yr affect-
hble-Servt
Edm'd Pendleton.
(Below see copy of an old letter which I got some years ago from Aunt
Jane Clayton's in Chesterfield Co, near Richmond Va. and it is from
this sourse I have succeeded in renewing the acquaintance of some of our
English relatives by letter after a lapse of nearly eighty or a hundred
years. I have heard that there was a letter grom Miss Susan Frere
written from Gibraltar to some one of the New-Market family about
1830 but that so far as was remembered no one answered it.
A. G. Baylor)
(To be Continued)
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GENEALOGY
THE BRENT FAMILY
Compiled by W. B. Chilton, Washington, D. C.
(Continued.)
Transcript from Record of Trinity Parish, Charles County, Maryland.
Robert Brent and Mary Wharton was (sic) united in the holy
Estate of Matrimony, May 6, 1729.
Mary Brent, Daughter of Robert Brent and Mary his wife was
bom September the 1st, 1731.
Robert Brent, Son of the aforesaid Robert and Mary Brent was
bom May the 6th, 1734.
Jane Brent, Daughter of the aforesaid Robert and Mary Brent
was born January 2d, 1736.
George Brent, Son of the aforesaid Robert and Mary Brent was
bom May the 3d, 1737.
Susanna Brent, Daughter of the aforesaid Robert and Mary Brent
was born January the 2d, 1739.
Elizabeth Brent, Daughter of the afores'd Robert and Mary
Brent was born March the 4th, 1740.
Nicholas Brent, Son of the aforesa'd Robert and Mary Brent was
born November the 1st, 1741.
Francis Brent, Son of the afores'd Robert and Mary Brent was
born July the 7th, 1745.
Deaths :
George Brent, Departed this life Deer. 16th, 1754.
Francis Brent, Departed this life Dec. 17th, 1745.
Susanna Brent, Departed this life, March 4, 1739.
Elizabeth Brent, Departed this life Oct'r 17th, 1740.
Nicholas Brent, Departed this life Aug. 1, 1744. ( )
Gen. Joseph Lancaster Brent.
Son of Wm. Leigh Brent and Maria Fenwick. B. Charles County,
Maryland Nov. 30, 1826, Educated at Georgetown College where he
he studied law. practised in Louisiana, and thence removed to
Los Angeles, Cal. and practised there. Served two terms in the
California legislature; he returned to Baltimore at the J breaking
out of the war and entered the Confederate Army as Major. Rendered
gallant service and was promoted first to Colonel, then Brigadeer Gen-
eral. At the close of the war he returned to the practise of the law in
KDHKKT .lAMKS HHKNT
GENEALOGY. 97
Baltimore in partnership with his brother Hon. Robert James Brent.
In 1870 he married Rosella, yovmgest daughter of Hon. Dtincan Farrar
Kenner, and his wife Nanie Bringier, dau. of Michael Douradon Brin-
gier, and shortly afterwards removed to Louisiana and assumed the
management of large estates in which his wife was interested — Served
two terms in the Louisiana legislature and was President of the State
Agricultural Society.
After his return to Maryland, about 1887, he was made deputy gov
emor general from Maryland of the Society of Colonial wars and Presi-
dent of the Maryland Sons of the American Revolution — Died at Balti-
more Nov. 27, 1905 leaving his widow and two children, Dtmcan Kenner
Brent, a lawyer in Baltimore and Miss Nanine Brent..
He was noted for his modesty, his gentleness, his purity of char-
acter and his devotion to duty.
Vivian Brent.
Vivian Brent youngest son of William Leigh and Maria Fenwick
Brent was bom at Pamonkey the old Fenwick estate in Charles County,
Maryland on the 22d of March 1831. When young he went to Lousiana
with his parents, and later was sent to Georgetown College for his ed-
ucation. In 1849 he entered the law office of his distinguished brother
Robert James Brent in Baltimore. He practised law in Baltimore and
in Charles Cotmty, Maryland. Was editor of the Southern Maryland
Independent and took a prominent part in politics, being a member of
the Constitutional Convention called soon after the war. In 1882 Mr.
Brent was appointed by President Cleveland as Assistant Attorney in
the Interior Department and thereafter made his home in Washington.
In 1888 he was offered but declined an appointment as Territorial Judge
of Utah, on which occasion he received a flattering testimonial from
Mr. Justice Lamar.
Mr. Brent married in 1857 Josephine, daughter of Col. William D.
Merrick, U. S. Senator from Maryland. Their children died in infancy.
Perhaps to this fact can be traced the devotion that existed between
Judge Brent and his niece Josephine Brent Merrick, the constant com-
panion of his later years.
He died at Hammond Court, his home in Georgetown, D. C,
June 28, 1906.
(to be continued.)
T HE BEVERLEY FAMILY
(continued.)
Since the publication of the account of Robert Beverley, of "Bland-
field" (XX, 332) several copies of old letters sent to the Historical So
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ciety a number of years ago have been examined. These Copies were
sent by Mr. R. M. Fowler, of London, England, who had inherited them
from R. McKenzie Beverley, of Yorkshire, the last male descendant of
William Beverley (son of Robert, of "Blandfield") who settled in Eng-
land. These letters show that Robert Beverley of "Blandfield," was
educated at Wakefield School, Yorkshire and, probably, at Trinity
College, Cambridge. The following letter is addressed to Beilby Por-
teus. Bishop of Chester & London, whose parents were Virginians.
The Nelson referred to was Thomas Nelson, signer of the Declaration
of Independence. McKenzie was probably Robert McKenzie, formerly
of Virginia, and a Captain in Washington's regiment in the French and
Indian War, who became an officer in the English army and was wounded
at Bunker Hill. A Virginian writing shortly after battle seems to be
pleased by the fact that "Bob McKenzie" had been hit — no doubt be-
cause he thought he was on the wrong side.
Robt Beverley named two sons after his friends McKenzie and
Bradshaw.
My lord
Through the channel of our common friend Mackenzie I have
frequently had the pleasure of hearing of your welfare, & of the civilities
you have shewn my son. I have at the request of my friend Mr. Brad-
shaw of Daug in Lancashire, formerly of Trinity sent my second son to
his care & patronage — He is situated by the recommendation of Dr.
Can under a Mr. Andrews at Highgate much to his satisfaction — Both
my sons will, I hope, make more of the opportunities thrown in their
way, than their father did — As we grow old, we discover our youthful
follies, but not being able to remedy them, nothing is left us but to lament
we did not think otherwise, & to beg our chilren to observe greater cir-
cumspection in the days of their youth —
Yr former pupil Nelson is well; he continues to be the same gen-
erous, benevolent man as when you knew him, & is as well as myself,
the father of a very large family.
Having proceeded thus far, I must take the liberty of introduc-
ing a subject of another nature, in w'h I wish to interest you in behalf
of a gentleman, whose honor, probity, politeness & understanding hath
rendered him for a length of years one of my most valuable friends —
this gentlemans name is Power, a native of this Country, but ed-
ucated with me for some years at Wakefield in Yorkshire — After his re.
turn to Virginia, he applied himself to the law, &, before the war practised
at the bar with very considerable applause & success — The stoppage
of the courts of justice & the continuance of the war at once cut off his
resources, & he was thereby induced to accept of an agency in the pur-
chase & adjustment of two estates in London & Devonshire — Since the
peace took place our legislature hath thouglit proper to make a discrim-
ination between those citizens who left us during the progress of the war.
GENEALOGY. 99
& those, who remained here — This is necessarily an impediment to Mr.
Power's return, &. deprives him at once of those opportunities, w'h his
abilities & connexions here induced him to calculate upon. I must there-
fore request you, if it lies in your way, to assist in procuring some civil
appointment for him — He will himself explain the particulars, & in so
doing, you will serve a worthy man, & confer a lasting obligation
on, My dear Lord,
Your Lordships most obed't
Robert Beverley
Blandfield Virginia 25 Nov. 1784.
This letter is addressed as follows
Right rev'd Beilby Porteus Bishop of Chester —
There is a memorandum on the back in M'r R. M. Beverley's wiiting.
N. B. This letter proves that R. Beverley
father of W. Beverley was educated at
Wakefield. Yorkshire.
The other letters are to his son William.
A copy of a letter from Robert Beverley to William Beverley —
The first sheet is, lost.
in no degree, be compared to the base servility which history records
in the days of the worst Roman Emperors, but are perfectly consonant to
the primitive spirit of Belgic republicanism & equality. As to the gen-
eral bent of our politics, I flatter myself they will continue to tend to
peace, arts, manufactures & commerce, from the cultivation of which
only we can expect to flourish —
Reports say that G. B. is again entering on war — surely they are
a strange people who must eternally under the idea of a balance of power
& the protection of commerce, be interfering in the politics of every
nation on earth — I profess not to be an adept in politics, but if the Brit-
ish nation should spend as much money in making peace between Russia
& Turkey, as she did on the Nootka Soimd business, Mr Pitts name will
not stand very high in the page of futurity —
In my last I informed you that my boot legs are not yet come to hand —
The encyclopedia has at length gotten Mr Mitchell's trunk as far as
Rosegill; in a month, I may expect to get them — I must request you will
procure the saddles mentioned in my last as soon as you can, & least my
former order should miscarry, I now repeat it, viz.
a saddle of the best & plainest sort for myself — the top skirt short, &
the lower one long, sufficiently so, to obviate every inconvenience arising
from the sweat of the horse in the hot weather — the padding to be thick
& within one inch of the lowest part of the skirt — polished steel stirrups
& neat plain bridle with steel bits — a good portmanteau saddle & pillion
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for Harry, with skirts & padding similar to mine — spare paddings &
girths to each saddle — with wollen saddle cloths — Let them be sent by
the first opportunity to this river, or Norfolk, with duplicate bills of
lading — if by the way of Norfolk, to the care of Mr John Cranberry,
Mr Andersons correspondent there. These saddles to be made precisely
as yours were only that the underskirt & paddings must be somewhat
longer —
In one of my former letters I requested you would take in a paper,
w'h contains the most foreign & domestic news — the parliamentary
debates engross so much of some of them, as not to suit my purpose, as
I do not find myself much interested in them —
Present my most affectionate wishes to Mackenzie & Robinson,
to the last of whom I will write by Flynn, & assure yourself
that I am, dear William,
Very sincerely yours
Robert Beverley
Blandfield 15th June 1791
This letter is addressed as follows
Mr William Beverley
London
No. 2.
Hare Court Dover
Temple Ship L're
Per Boyd /
Capt. Boyd\
Copy of a letter from Robert Beverley to William Beverley
There is no envelope or endorsenent.
My dear William
My last letter of June was written in answer to yours of jan. 1st
relative to the provision I have promised you, & I flatter myself, upon
the receipt of it, both you & your wife will be more at ease, for I can
with truth assure you, that it is my wish you should be so — Our friend
Bradshaw, in mentioning the frequent miscarriages, laments you not hav-
ing a child live bom, as all your wife's fortune would go from you — this
was a circumstance, w'h I was not apprized of before, nor indeed have
I ever been able to guess at the size or situation of that fortune — some-
times I have been led to believe, from reports, that it was such as would
enable you to enjoy every convenience & comfort. Be that as it may,
I should hope your wife will make every provision for you, which she can
have in her power.
We have had infinitely the wettest summer ever known, & all the
wheat, below the falls of every river, is so much injured both in quantity
& quality, as to curtail more than half our hopes — In Culpeper, where
it was put into the ground in proper time, it will be better than usual,
GENEALOGY. 101
but unfortunately my best overseer, from the circumstance of his hav-
ing a good crop of tob'o, was too late, consequently his wheat yields
nothing — the wet weather too is unfavourable to tob'o, but has given
us the best crops of com ever known. I am just returned from Cul-
peper, where I am pleased to find your brother Robert is devoted to
the improvement of his property, is become quite economi'^al, & seems
quite as much pleased with retirement as I am — his establishment is
small, but, with frugality, will give him all the decencies of life; & when
a young man has determined to create a family, they are as much as
anybody here has a title to expect —
I have sent a cask containing eight very fine hams, w'h are as
many as the captain would undertake to deliver, because both M'r
Wormeley & M'r Grymes have some on board, & therefore it would not
be practicable to land a greater quantity: & I have often heard you say
they were not worth the duty — if you be of another opinion at this time,
you will say so, & you shall be better supplied — Your mother sends you
some sweetmeats, & I could make you a present of peach brandy, would
the captains undertake to land it, or you should think it worth the duty —
our excises have run the price here up to two dollars p'r gallon in the
stores —
Sometime ago I sent an old shoe to the care of M'r Backhouse,
which, he said, he should forward to M'r Anderson, & I then requested
you would send me a few pairs according to the instructions contained
in the shoe — those you sent last were too wide — I also requested a coat
& four summer waistcoats, which, as they are not yet made I beg may
be lined with linen — you know I wish for everything cheap & plain —
I now send to the care of Messrs Anderson & Co. an old boot; it is an
inch loo long in the leg, & greatly too large in the ancle — the calf &
foot are right— I shall thank you for one very thin pair of calfskin boots
for the summer, & another, not thick, for the winter — they are both to
be double vamped, with turn down tops, not sewed, a loop behind for
a garter — the leather to be perfectly soft & neatly made — two sets of
spur leathers, which are not to be stuffed. M'r Anderson will pay you—
Our politics have undergone no revolution since my last, unless,
perhaps, the violent or factious party may not have increased. Should
M'r Jay's embassy be successful I shall hope that our government may
acquire a little stability— The government of G. B. seems to have or,
possibly, to take more energy, than I once thought it possessed — Riot
& insurrection seem to bow their heads; Priestleys excursion hither, &
the frequent remittances to Botany Bay may compose the minds of the
people, although I am of opinion that the absurdity of M'r Pitts politics
in continual armaments, & his interference in the politics of the continent
must give great & just cause for national complaint — So stupid am I,
that I have never yet been able to penetrate into the greatness of his
father, or himself — there have been more of vanity ostentation & a
thirst of power than national benefits —
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As to any occurences, w'h may have fallen in the circle of your
acquaintance, I leive them to your sisters, & other correspondents, who
will detail them more exactly than I can.
Present my love to your wife, & assure yourself that I am most
sincerely yours
(signed) Robert Beverley
Blandfield 22' Aug. 1794.
Will you enquire of M'r John Page why his brother has not sent my
annual pipe of red port — it is a disappointment for madeira is now so
dutied as to suit wjery few purses in this country —
That my may fit me as well as possible, I have taken a measure
according to taylors directions, w'h will be found in the leg of the old boot,
by comparing them both with orders, perhaps they may be made to fit
me. I likewise beg that you will send me a saddle of the best materials;
the underskirt to be longer than usual & the padding to extend with
half an inch of the lowest part of the skirt — & this padding to be very
thick — I am thus particular, because you must remember how very much
we are incommoded with sweat in the summer. Plain steel stirrups &
buckles, no crupper — a bridle with two bitts; no heavy or unnecessary
work, & the reins not broad.
I wish to have everything made of the best & plainest materials —
two flannel saddle cloths. You will recollect that our horses, generally,
are not so wide upon the withers as in England — six yards of spare girting.
I should be glad of my boots by the first opportunity, as I am
much in need of them —
(to be continued.)
POINDEXTER FAMILY.
(Continued.)
Sketches of Louisa in Olden Times.
Number 7.
As already stated Thomas Poindexter left seven Sons viz.. John,
James, Robert, Thomas, Richard, Gabriel and George Poindexter.
His oldest son, John, was born in this county and brought up in the
clerk's office under the instruction of John Nelson who was appointed
clerk of the court in 1766, succeeding James Littlepage and held the
office during the remainder of his life.
I shall have something more to say of Nelson hereafter. John
Poindexter entered the clerk's office in 1773 and served under Nelson
until 1790, when the latter dying, Poindexter was elected in his place by
the Justices composing the County Court.
During his service in the clerk's office other young men were
with him learning the business of clerks, among them (though much
GENEALOGY. 103
older) was Mr. John Timberlake, the first clerk of Fluvanna (1777,)
who held the office between thirty and forty years, and was then suc-
ceeded by one of his sons. I shall say nothing as to the Timbei lakes
as their connection with the county so far as the subject of these sketches
is concerned terminated with Mr. John Timberlake 's connection in the
clerk's office imder John Nelson. John Poindexter held the office of
clerk of the County Court of Louisa down to the 28th day of September
1820 on which day he died. He also held the office of clerk of the Cir-
cuit Court of Law from the formation of that court till his death. For
this period of thirty years no man acted a more prominent and con-
spicuous part in all matters relating to the county than John Poindexter.
The idea prevailed then as it does now that the clerks of the
courts knew everything in relation to legal proceedings, and hence he
seems to have prepared wills, deeds etc., to a very great extent, show-
ing the confidence the people had in him, and as far as the records show
(and I have no doubt truely) that confidence was never abused by him.
In 1790 he attached him.^elf to the Baptist church being baptised
on the 29th of June and was ordained to the ministry in that denomina-
tion on the 3rd. of February 1792, and was chosen pastor of the Baptist
Church at "The Roundabout" in April of that year, and continued that
relation down to at least the 30 of May 1814, and how much longer I am
unable to say with accuracy.
The Roundabout church was situated about eight miles south of
Louisa C. H. It was burned down during the lifetime of John Poindexter
or soon after his death and has never been rebuilt. Only a few persons
of this generation recollect where the church stood.
He served other churches for over a period of twenty-five years,
but about this I do not purpose to say any thing as his services as a Bap-
tist Minister are stated in the "Virginia Baptist Ministers."
He was married three times. His first wife was a Miss Green
by whom he had only one child, William G. Poindexter, who died many
years ago leaving descendants; among them the present wife of the Hon.
A. R. Holladay of Henrico County, Va.. and the late Henry Poindexter
whom every one in this County well remembers as one of the best in-
formed, social, genial, and good natured men. He deserves to have a
better tribute paid him than can be done in these sketches. The writer
is only saying something in reference to the "Old Time Men."
John Poindexter's second wife was a Miss Johnson by whom he
had the following children, viz: Nicholas, John, Thomas. Andrew,
Waller, Lucy Jones (who died unmarried) and Mary, who married Gar-
rett M. Quarles. The descendants of this marriage now reside in Ken-
tucky and Tennessee. Two of them have been greatly distinguished
and have been honored by their respective States filling most important
offices. Nicholas removed to the State of Kentucky and died there:
many years ago, leaving children. Among the sons he left was Georgo
Gilmer Poindexter one of the most promising and rising young men in
104 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
all that Country at the time of his death. Thomas died in Virginia
leaving children, two sons and a daughter.
He married a Miss Schooler, near Fredericksburg, Va. Andrew
died in this County unmarried. Waller was married to a Miss Talley
of Goochland County, and removed to Kentucky where he died years
ago, leaving children; their names are not known to me. John is still
living in Kentucky, now an old man, and if these sketches should fall
under his eye, he might supply much in reference to the Poindexters
that the writer has left out for want of accurate information.
John Poindexter's third wife was Margaret Maer of N. C. to whom
he was married in 1813, leaving by this marriage one daughter, Mrs.
F ances E. Thompson who now resides at Louisa Court House. His
last wife survived him some thirty years and died at the place now
owned by Mrs. A. W. Talley, in 1850. The writer of these sketches was
at the fimeral discourse which was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Mylne
and pronounced by an old college friend who was with him at the time
to be one of the best discourses he had ever listened to. Mr. Mylne
and his college friend have both passed away to that "Undiscovered
Country" (This by the way.)
Elder John Poindexter, (I will thus call him to distinguish him)
was a gentleman of the most decided haracter with a strong and vig-
orous intellect tinctured to a great extent with the prevailing ideas of
the day as is fully shown by all his writings now extant.
As a clerk he was a faithful and efficient officer as the records fully
testify; not however drawn with the same accuracy of expression and
preciseness as those under Littlepage's administration many years be-
fore.
I take it that his ministerial duties engrossed a good deal of his
time and that in making up his records he was more impressed with
the substance than the forms of his entries in the records.
This can however be said thar the "Records of the Court" under
this administration would compare very favorably with many of the
present day in this State.
During John Poindexter's clerkship the clerk's office for a portion
of the time was kept at his house which is now the residence of Capt
Wm. Meade a grandson of Bishop Meade, and known as "Winston Hall".
Afterwards it was kept at the present residence of A. H. Talley where
Poindexter lived and died. He removed from "Winston Hall" to this
place. For several years before the present Courthouse was built (1817)
the clerk's office was kept in a room of the old jail which I mentioned
:n a former number as having been burned in (1866) I shall say some-
thing of tlie brothers of Elder John Poindexter hereafter.
Copied by A. B. Mitchell,
Port Royal, Va.
Feby 25th, 1887.
(to be continued)
GENEALOGY. 105
THE ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ROLFE
WITH NOTICES OF SOME CONNECTED FAMILIES.
[This is part of an unpublished and unfinished section of a projected
book which was to treat of "The Colonial Councillors of Virginia and
Their Descendants." The biographical portion was nearly completed;
but the account of the descendants of John Rolfe, the earliest council-
lor whose descendants can be traced, showed, even though this is not
complete, that the preparation of the genealogies would be a work which
would require more time than the compilers could possibly spare. It was
not proposed to reprint the later generations treated of in well-known
and reliable works, such, for instance, as those in Robertson's Descend-
ants of Pocahontas; but to give references to them. The plan also was
that where one branch of a family was descended, through female lines,
from one councillor, while another branch could trace, also through
females, to another, to give the whole family under the earliest
councillor who appeared. This explains some of the Flemings and
their descendants, the Webbs, appearing here. Some of the Flemings
descended from John Rolfe, while others traced through the Randolphs
to the Pages, who were councillors. In addition there were to be notes
and addenda in regard to connected families not directly descended from
any member of the Council]
Rolfe of Heacham.
The family of Rolfe was resident from an early date in the County
of Norfolk, England. The immediate ancestors of John Rolfe lived at
Hecham near King's Lynn in that County, and the earliest record of the
direct line is of two brothers, Robert and Eustace Rolfe, who were bom
at Heacham about 1539. Robert married Margaret Crowe and was an-
cestor of a prominent family at Lynn, and Eustace Rolfe married at
Heacham, May 27, 1560, Joanna Jenner. Eustace and Joanna had a son
John Rolfe, of Heacham, who was bom October 17, 1562. married Doro-
thea Mason, Sept. 24, 1582, died in 1594, and was buried at Heacham
Church, December 1st of that year.
In the Church is a brass with a Latin inscription to this John
Rolfe. The following is a translation which has been furnished us:
"John Rolfe, gentleman, of Hitcham, died on the twenty-ninth
day of November, in the year of our Lord, 1594, in the thirty-second
year of his age. While he lived he was of much service to his fellows;
his wish to enrich all his neighbors and kinsfolk by assisting the poor
with his wealth; nothing could be kinder than he was; he bore the in-
sults of many men quietly without oflFence; by exporting and importing
such things as England abounded in or needed, he was of the greatest
service, inasmuch as he spent both pains and labor upon it. Thus he
seemed to die as the force of fire is quenched by excess of water. For
106 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
his Strength was unimpaired, nor had he completed many years when
he died. His death brought grief to many, but he had done nobly upon
the consciousness of a well spent life, and the record of many benefits
not allowed to die utterly:"
John Rolfe had, no doubt, been a successful merchant at Lynn.
The Heacham register shows that John and Dorothea (Mason)
Rolfe had, with other issue, 1. Eustace, and 2. John (twins) baptized
May 6, 1585; 3. Edward, baptized Feb. 22, 1591. There was another
son, Henry, afterwards a merchant in London and a member of the
Virginia Company, who is included in a manuscript pedigree mentioned
by Mrs. Jones in her Old Sandringham.
The Rolfes of Heacham Hall long remained among the gentry of
Norfolk. One of them was sheriff of the county about 1760. In 1837
S. C. E. Neville Rolfe, Esq., who assumed the name and arms, succeeded ,
to the property. The well-known portrait of Pocahontas descended to
the present time through the Rolfes and their relations in Norfolk.
Heacham Hall has been in part rebuilt and enlarged, but a con-
siderable portion of the old house remains and is shown in the accom-
panying illustration.
Two English books Old Sandringham, by Mrs. Herbert Jones, and
The King's Homeland contain interesting notices of Heacham and the
Rolfes.
(to be continued.)
THE TURNER FAMILY OF KING GEORGE COUNTY &c.
(Continued.)
When the first instalment of this genealogy appeared an exam-
ination of the records of Richmond and King George Counties appeared
to show that Thomasi Turner had only one wife, Martha Taliaferro.
But since this publication of the last instalment Vol. V of the Acts of
the (English) Privy Council, Colonial Series has been received and
gives the record of a suit which shows that Thomas Turner married
twice and also explains his unusually large gifts to a daughter's children.
On pages 128, 129, under date 1769, is entry of an appeal to the Privy
Coimcil from Virginia in the suit of Dixon vs. Turner. It is stated that
Col. Thomas Turner had by his first marriage, two sons Harry and
Thomas, and by his second, a daughter Sarah who married Edward
Dixon. Harry married Elizabeth Smith and died in 1751 leaving an
only child Thomas. His (Harry's) brother, Thomas Turner the younger,
GENEALOGY. 107
died intestate in 1747, leaving a son Harry and a daughter Sally who
married Walker Taliaferro. The record also states that Mrs. Elizabeth
Turner, wife of Harry (son of Col. Thomas) had father and brother each
named Nicholas Smith.
The name of Thomas Turner's other wife is not certainly known;
but as Sarah, wife of Thomas Turner, of King George, gent., released
her dower in a tract of land (formerly bought by him in 1725), which
he sold by deed, Spotsylvania County, Aug. 1, 1732, the second wife
was, no doubt named Sarah.
Col. Thomas 1 Turner married first, in 1714, Martha, daughter
of Richard Taliaferro, and secondly, Sarah —
Issue (1st m.). 2. Harry^ (of whom later); 3. Thomasz, of Spots-
sylvania Co. He was appointed a Justice of that County in 1742, married
Mary Taliaferro, and died intestate, according to the English record, in
1747. This probably should be 1757, as in 1753 Thos. Turner of King
George, gent, and Thomas Turner, the younger of Spotsylvania Co.,
gent, and Mary his wife, made a deed in Spotsylvania. On Nov. 7,
1749, by deed in Spotsylvania it was recited that Charles Taliaferro
the elder, late of Caroline Co., by his will March 2, 1734, left 570 acres,
called Motts, to his grandaughtevs Mary and Sarah Taliaferro, and that
Mary married Thomas Turner Jr, and Sarah married Francis Conway.
Thomas^ and Mary (Taliaferro) Turner had issue (a.) Thomas', alive
1769, no further information; (b.) Sally'' married Walker Taliaferro.
Col. Thomas' Turner had issue (by 2d m.) 4. Sarah^, married Edward
Dixon; 5. Mary^, unmarried 1757.
2. Major Harry^ Turner (Thomas 0, of King George County,
bom — , died 1751; was vestryman of Hanover parish, clerk of King
George County 1742-1751, and member of the House og Burgesses for
King George County at the sessions beginning May 1742, Sept. 1744'
Feb. 1745, July 1746, March 1747, October 1748, and April 1749. H*
married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Col. Nicholas Smithe
of King George County (whose residence "Smith's Mount" is now in
Westmoreland County) and acquired with her a large estate. The
will of Major Harry Turner, if he made one, is in the missing King George
County will book; but the inventory of his personal estate is still on record.
It includes "a parcel of books" valued at £11.5; 5 maps in gilt
frames £3; 69 pictures in gilt frames £6; silver plate £104; 2 sets tea
spoons £4; a case with one dozen silver haf ted knives and one dozen table-
spoons £20; 66 negroes &c; total values of personal estate £8,402.12.5,
Dated Sept. 6, 1753.
At "Smith's Mount" was formerly the tomb of Mayor Harry
Turner, bearing the arms (as given on the book-plate) and the follow-
ing inscription:
108 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
"Beneath this Marble
Are deposited
the remains of
Major Harry Turner
1751
And
Elizabeth his wife
1752
Who with Credit and Esteem
Possessed and enjoyed
An Ample Fortvme
From which Unerring Wisdom
Thought fit to snatch them
In their Bloom
Together with three Sons
Who all dyed
In their infancy"
This tomb has been now removed to the Episcopal Chapel at
Port Conway, King George.
Harry and Elizabeth (Smith) Turner had issue, to survive, an only
son: 6. Thomas-^ ((of whom later)
Col. Thomas^ Turner, of "Walsingham" and "Smith's Mount,"
bom — , died 1787. He was a member of the King George County Com-
mittee of Safety 1771-76, and after the change of county boundaries
lived in Westmoreland where he died. He married Jane, daughter of
William Fauntleroy, of "Naylor's Hole," Richmond Co. His will was
dated Jvme 2, 17S7 and proved in Westmoreland County October 30, 1787.
Legatees: wife Jane, daughter Elizabeth Cocke, daughter Jean, young-
est daughter Mary Turner, to eldest son Henry Smith Turner, the plan-
tation called Smith's Mount, to sons Thomas and George the plantation
called Nanzatico, to be equally divided, to son Richard the plantation
opposite Port Royal adjoining the town of Port Conway; back lands
to be equally divided between sons.
Thomas 3 and Jane (Fauntleroy) Turner had issue: 7. Henry
Smith* (of whom later); 8. Thomas* (of whom later); 5. George* (of
whom later); 6. Richard* (of whom later); 7. Jane, married William
Storke Jett, of "Walnut Hill," Westmoreland Co; 8. Mary (May) mar-
ried Turner Dixon; 9. Elizabeth married Charles Cocke; 10. Sally died
unmarried.
(to be CONTINUED.)
♦Nicholas 'Smith, of "Smith's Mount", Richmond and King George
(now Westmoreland) County, was long a wealthy planter. It appears
in the Records of Richmond County that on March 6, 1704-5, Captain
Nicholas Smith filed a claim for pay for the troop under his Command
GENEALOGY. 109
lor services against the Indians. From 1705 he was for many years a Just-
ice of Richmond Coimty. He died in 1734. In.King George County on
May 3, 1734 administration on the estate of Nicholas Smith, gent., was
granted to his widow Elizabeth, who gave bond in the sum of £10,000
current money, with William Thornton, John Champe and Anthony
Haynie, securities. They had two children, Elizabeth, eventually
sole heiress, who married Harry Turner, and Nicholas, who died unmar-
ried. In King George, Oct, 1, 1742, Nicholas and|Elizabeth Smith chose
Thomas Turner their guardian. Dennis McCartyjhad been the guardian
of Elizabeth.
Nicholas Smith Sr. was buried at "Smith's Mount", with the
following'epitaph :
"Here lies the body of Colo. Nicholas Smith, Son ofjNicholas and
and Efsob'ah Smith, bom at London the 4th day of Sepbr. 1666.
Married his wife in the 23d year of his age by whom he had no child.
Married his second wife in the year 1722, by whom'.he had three children
one son and two daughters. Departed this life 18th day of March 1734
in the 68th year of his age."
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A^HisTORY OF Highland County Virginia, By Oren F. Morton, B. L.
Author of "Under the Cottonwoods," A History of Pendleton
County, W. Va. (&c.-&c.) Monterey, Va., Published by the
Author, pp. 419, with maps and nine illustrations.
A county in the heart of the AUeganies must naturally be some-
what apart from great historic events; but its very remoteness and
unlikeness to the more accessible regions to the east add an interest
to its history.
It is a remote section even now and its distance, from the centres
of government and trade along the Atalntic in early days, is hard even
now to conceive.
Highland is now a flourishing county, but for a long period its
people were almost the most advanced pioneers, so that its history and
the life of its people are different, from those of most of our cotrntieS of
which histories,have been written.
Mr. Morton has done his work with great care, and from the open-
ing chapter on the topography and geology of the County down to the
compact genealogies and useful appendices at the end has made a model
county history.
Frontier Defense on the Upper Ohio, 1777-1778. Compiled from the
Draper Manuscripts in the Library of the Wisconsin Historical So-
ciety and.published at the charge of the Wisconsin Society of the
Sons of the American Revolution. Edited by Reuben Gold
Thwaites, Superintendent of the Society; and Louise Phelps Kel-
logg, Ph. D., Editorial Assistant on the Society's Staff (Seal)
Madison, Wisconsin Historical Society, 1912, pp. xviii, 329, with
index, a map of the frontier of North Western Virginia in the
Revolution, and nine potraits, fac similies, &c.
The Wisconsin Society of the Sons of the American Revolution,
and the Historical Society of that State have again drawn from that
matchless storehouse of Western history, the Draper Collection, mater-
ial for another valuable book on the history of the country bordering
on the Ohio during 1777-78. Readers who are acquainted with the
Documentary History of Dunmore's War 1774 and the Revolution on the
Upper Ohio, 1775-1777, will know what to expect among the very varied
and valuable papers published in this book. It is especially of interest
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to Virginians as nearly all of the actors in the events described were
Virginians, and as the country from Pittsburg to the Kanawha was then
within the jurisdiction of this State.
The notes as usual are of great value; but as was the case with
the preceeding volume, show sometimes a curious dislike to credit Vir-
ginia when credit is properly due. For instance on p. 2, it is stated that
Fort Pitt was garrisoned by British troops until 1772, then held by
Virginians until the end of Dunmore's War and afterwards was occupied
by American troops under Col. John Neville. Virginians are Americans;
but the word American as used in this Note in contrast with British and
Virginian can only have one meaning — troops directly under control of
the American Congress. This will no doubt be the idea conveyed to any
reader who is not informed.
One must feel that the Editors have been somewhat loose in the
use of words when it is known that John Neville was sent to Pittsburg
(Fort Duquesne or Pitt) by the Virginian Convention on August 7, 1775
with a company of Virginia troops "the said company to be in the pay,
of this Colony from the time of their marching."
Again on p. 5, it is stated that Fort Randolph at the mouth of
Great Kanawha was occupied by a company of Virginia Militia under
Captain Matthew Arbuckle and one from Pennsylvania vmder Captain
John Robinson, when the very reference the editors give (p 230 of the
preceding volume) is an order of the Executive Council of Virginia (Feb.
12, 1777) that a company be raised to garrison Fort Randolph under Cap-
tain John Pvobinson. His company was raised by Virginia's order and
he had his commission from the same state.
One or two other Notes may be referred to. On p. 176 it is stated
that the origin of the name Staunton is unknown. There can be little
doubt that the town was named after Rebecca Staunton wife of Gover-
nor Gooch. General Weedon (p. 214) died according to Heitman in
November 1793.
The Descendants of Capt.\in Thomas Carter of "Barford," Lancaster
County Virginia 1652-1912.
With genealogical notes of many of the allied families by Joseph
Lyon Miller, M. D., member of the Virginia Historical Society, the
West Virginia Historical Society, The Filson Club (Ky.) &c., Whittett
and Shepperson Printers, Richmond, Virginia. For Sale by Dr. J. L.
Miller, Thomas, West Virginia, pp. 388 with 164 illustrations, portraits,
views, fac-similies, Seals, Coats of Arms &c., with full index.
No Compiler of a Virginia genealogy has begun work under
conditions apparently more discouraging than did Dr. Miller when he
undertook an account of the descendants of Captain Thomas Carter o£
Lancaster Co., Va.
112 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
The surname is very numerously represented in entirely uncon-
nected families, and even those who had some experience in tracing
Virginia family history only knew that Captain Thomas Carter was a
man of prominence in Lancaster County, and that there was a vast num-
ber of people of his name probably descended from him.
Captain Carter was a man of local prominence, and his descend-
ants had respectable positions and were generally in comfortable circum-
stances . The very large number of children in each generation naturally
caused much subdivision of property, and prevented the accumulation
of any great estates. As Dr. Miller says they were good citizens, lead-
ing honourable lives but with few exceptions they were prior to the
Revolution not people of prominence. Not only were there numerous
representatives of the family in Lancaster and adjacent counties; but
the family continued to increase and multiply in a remarkable way and
branches spread rapidly to more distant Counties; and later to other
States. Since the Revolution many of the descendants of Thomas Carter
in his own and other names, have been men of note in the civil and mili-
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Nothing that industry, minute care and careful consideration of
evidence could do, in the examination of public and private records, has
been spared and the result is a really remarkable genealogy.
Industry and intelligence have in Dr. Miller's case (as does not
always happen) been rewarded by remarkable good fortune in the dis-
covery of old family records in Bibles, prayer-books, manuscript accounts
prepared years ago, old portraits and similar aids to genealogy.
The book is thoroughly well vione, and will be of great interest to
hundreds of families. It is imposible in our space to give even a list of
families treated, in varying degrees of fullness.
There is a good index and many illustrations.
OFFICERS AND MEMBERS
OF THE
Virginia Historical Society
JANUARY. 1913.
President.
W. Gordon McCabe, Richmond, Va.
Vice-Presiden ts.
Archer Anderson, Richmond, Va.
Edward V. Valentine, Richmond, Va,
Lyon G. Tyler, Williamsburg, Va.
Corres^nding Secretary and Librarian,
William G. Stanard, Richmond, Va.
Recording Secretary.
D. C. Richardson, Richmond, Va.
Treasurer.
Robert A. Lancaster, Jr., Richmond, Va.
Executive Committee.
C. V. Meredith, Richmond, Va. Wm. H. Palmer, Richmond, Va.
Chas. W. Kent, University of Va. Rt.Rev.A.M.RANDOLPH, Norfolk.Va.
W. Meade Clark, Richmond, Va. J. Stewart Bryan, Richmond, Va.
A. C. Gordon, Staunton, Va. Daniel Grinnan, Richmond, Va.
S. S. P. Patteson, Richmond, Va. J. P. McGuire, Jr., Richmond, Va.
S. H. Yonge, Richmond, Va. Wm. A. Anderson, Lexington, Va.
and, ex-officio, the President, Vice-Presidents, Secretaries
and Treasurer.
The Annual Meeting of this Society
will be held in January, 1913. The
Proceedings of the Meeting will be
published in the April Magazine.
LIST OF MEMBERS
HONORARY MEMBERS-
Arber, Prof. Edward," Birmingham, Eng.
Gabert. Hon. J. W.. New York, N. Y.
Keane, Prof. A. H., London, Eng.
Stevens, Dr. H. Morse. University of Cal,
CORRESPONDING MEMBERS.
Atrill, Chas. H., London, Eng.
Bacon, H. P., Bury St. Edmund, Eng.
Banks, Chas. E.. M. D,
Barber, E. A., Philadelphia, Pa,
Bryant, H. W., Portland, Maine.
Campeau. Hon.. F. R. E.. Ottawa, Can.
Champlin, J. D., Jr., New York, N. Y.
Craig, Isaac, Alleghany, Pa.
Green, Hon. S. A.. M. D.. Boston, Mass.
Hart, Chas. H., Philadelphia. Pa.
Hayden. Rev. H, E., Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Hoes, Rev. R. R.. Washington, D. C.
Judah. George P.. Spanish Town. Jamaica.
Nicholson, Col. J. P.. Philadelphia. Pa.
Phillimore. W. P. W.. London. Eng.
Richemond, Mons. Meschinet De. La Ro.
chelle, France.
Rose. Josiah, London, Eng.
Ross. Hon. D. A., Quebec. Can.
Thwing. E. P.. Brooklyn. N. Y.
Wright, W. H. K., Plymouth, Eng.
LIFE MEMBERS
Adams, Gilmer S., Louisville, Ky.
Adams, Wm. Newton, Summit, N. J.
Alexander, H. M.. New York. N. Y.
Andrews, A. B., Jr., Raleigh. N. C.
Andrews. O.. Baltimore, Md.
Bagnell, Mrs. Wm., St. Louis. Mo.
Barksdale, H. M., Wilmington, Del.
Barratt, Judge Norris S., Philadelphia, Pa.
Blackwel!, Henry, New York, N. Y.
Bryan, Jonathan, Richmond, Va.
Bryan, Robert C, Richmond, Va.
Bryan, St. George, Richmond, Va.
Bryan, J. Stewart. Richmond, Va.
Bushnell. David L, Jr., University of Vir-
ginia.
Cabell, J. Alston, Richmond, Va.
Childers, Col. Gracey, Clarksville, Tenn.
Corbin, Mrs. Wm. Lygon, Philadelphia, Pa.
Cox, Mrs. Wm. Ruffin, Richmond, Va.
Clement. Capt. H. C, U. S. A.. Fort Porter,
Buffalo, N. Y.
Clements, Mrs. Helen I., St. Louis, Mo.
Cook, Heustis P.. Richmond, Va.
Deats, H. E.. Flemington. N.J.
Dooley. James H.. Richmond. Va._
Downman, R. H., New Orleans, La.
Garnett, Judge T. S., Norfolk, Va.
Gary. J. A.. Baltimore, Md.
Gibbs. Mrs. Virginia, B., Newport, R. I.
Grafflin, John C, Baltimore, Md.
Grandy, C. Wiley, Norfolk, Va.
Gratz, Simon, Philadelphia, Pa.
Harrison, Fairfax, Belvoir, Fauquier Co.,Va.
Hearst, Mrs. Phoebe A., Pleasanton, Cal.
Hobson, Mrs. Henry W., Jr.. Colorado
Springs. Col.
Hughes, R. M., Norfolk. Va.
Huntington, Archer M., Baychester. N. Y.
Ingalls. M. E., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Keith, Charles P., Philadelphia, Pa.
Kinsolving, Walter O.. Austin, Texas.
Lee, Edmund, J.. M. D.. Philadelphia. Pa.
Lee. General G. W. C. Burks, Va.
Lee. W. H.,St. Louis, Mo.
Logan, General T. M., Howardsville, Va.
Low, Hon. Seth. New York. N. Y.
Mason, Wm. Peyton, Minneapolis, Minn.
Miller. Dr. J. L.. Thomas. W. Va.
Mohler. Miss Edith M., St. Albans, W. Va.
Morse, Willard S.. New York, N. Y.
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McConnick, Cyrus Hall, Chicago, 111.
Nolting, Miss Elizabeth Aiken, Cobham, Va.
Richardson, D. C, Richmond, Va.
Rives, Hon. Geo. Lockhart, New York,
N. Y.
Robinson, Morgan P., Richmond, Va.
Scott, Judge R. Carter, Richmond, Va.
Scott, Frederick W., Richmond, Va.
Stevens, Mrs. Byam K., New York, N. Y.
Stiers, Rev. Ernest, M. D. D., New York,
N.Y.
Stubbs, Wm. C. New Orleans, La.
Swanson, Hon. Claude A., Chatham, Va.
Talcott, Col. T. M. R., Bon Air, Va.
Waterman, W. H., New Bedford, Mass.
Webb, W. Seward, New York. N. Y.
Whitehead, J. B., Norfolk, Va.
Wickham, Henry T., Richmond, Va.
Williams, A. D., Richmond, Va.
Williams, Thomas C, Richmond, Va.
Winslow, H. M., Harriman, Tenn.
Woodson, Captain R. S., U. S. A.. Fort
McDowell. Cal.
ANNUAL MEMBERS.^
Acklin, George W., Pittsburgh. Pa.
Abney, John R., New York, N. Y.
Adams, Samuel P., South Boston, Va.
Adams, Walter, Framingham, Mass.
Addison, E. B., Richmond, Va.
Adkins, S. B., Richmond, Va.
Aguilar de, Mrs. F. B., New York, N. Y.
Alexander, F. W., Oak Grove, Va.
Alexander, Dr. W. T.. New York, N. Y.
Allen. E. W., Savannah. Ga.
Allen, Herbert F. M., Washington. D. C.
Ambler, Ben. Mason, Parkersburg, W. Va.
Ames, Mrs. Joseph S.. Baltimore, Md.
Anderson, Col. Archer. Richmond, Va.
Anderson, B. P.. M. D., Colorado Springs,
Col.
Anderson, Davis C, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Anderson, Edward L., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Anderson, W. A.. Lexington, Va.
Andrews, Prof. C. M., Yale University, New
Haven, Conn.
Atkinson, Thomas. Richmond. Va.
Atkinson. Thomas. Jr.. Richmond, Va.
Austin-Leigh, Richard A., London, Eng.
Axtell. Decatur, Richmond. Va.
Bagby. Mrs. Parke C. Richmond, Va.
Baker, Mrs. Gibbs L., Washington, D. C.
Ballard, N. H., Brunswick, Ga.
Barbour. John S.. Fairfax. Va.
Barton. R. T.. Winchester. Va.
Baskervill. P. H.. Richmond, Va.
Battaile, W. A., Lawrence, Kan.
Bayne, Howard R., New York, N. Y.
Beer, George Louis, New York, N. Y.
Beime. Francis F., Richmond. Va.
Bell. Landon C. Asheville. N. C.
Bell.Robert O., Richmond, Va.
Belmont, August, New York, N. Y.
Belt. Mrs. Eliz. Talbot. Millen, Ga.
Best, Frank E., Chicago, 111.
Berry, Mrs. J. T., Dallas, Texas.
Blackford, Dr. L. M., Alexandria, Va.
Blackstock, Ira B.. Springfield, 111.
Blaine, Mrs. E. Robert, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Blair, Miss Louisa Coleman, Richmond. Va.
Blow. A. A., New York, N. Y.
Boatwright, Mrs. Gertrude F. H.. Roanoke,
Va.
Bodley, Temple, Louisville, Ky.
Boisseau, Sterling, Richmond, Va.
Boisseau, P. H., Danville, Va.
Boiling, Blair, Richmond, Va.
Boiling. Stanhope, Richmond, Va.
Bondurant, Dr. Eugene D., Mobile, Ala.
Booker, Mrs. Hunter R., Hampton, Va.
Boreman, R. J. A., Parkersburg, W. Va.
Bosher, Mrs. Robert S., Richmond, Va.
Boswell, Mrs. T. Steptoe, Baltimore, Md.
Bourgeoisie, Mrs. A. C, St. Louis, Mo.
Bowles, Henry L., Denver, Col.
Boyd, James N., Richmond, Va.
Boykin, Mrs. F. M., Richmond, Va.
Boyle. Mrs. P. A., Davenport, Iowa.
Boyle, Mrs. Virginia Frazier. Memphis,
Tenn.
Bradford, James C, Nashville. Tenn.
Branch, Major John P., Richmond. Va.
Braxton, A. Caperton , Richmond, Va.
Brent, F. C, Pensacola, Fla.
Brodhead, Lucas, Versailles, Ky.
Brooke, George D., Winchester, Va.
Brooke, Richard N., Washington, D. C.
Brooke. Richard, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Brooke, Robert. T.. Birmingham, Ala.
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Brooke, S. S., Roanoke. Va.
Brooke, Dr. T. V., Sutherlin, Va.
Broun, Major T. L.. Charleston, W. Va.
Brown, Prof. W. G., Columbia, Mo.
Brown, J. Thompson, Richmond, Va.
Bruce, Hon. C. M., Clarkton, Va.
Bruce, Philip Alexander, Norfolk, Va.
Bruce, Mrs. Mary Howard, Baltimore, Md.
Bryan, Thomas P., Richmond, Va.
Bryan, St. George T. C, Petersburg. Va.
Bryant, C. B., Martinsville, Va.
Budlong, Mrs. M. J., New York, N. Y.
Buford. Commander M. B., U. S. N., Watch
Hill, R. I.
Bukey, Mrs. John Spencer, Vienna, Va.
Bullard, Mrs. B. F., Savannah, Ga.
Bullitt, W. C, Philadelphia. Pa.
Bvirges, Richard F., El Paso, Texas.
Burnside, Mrs. Samuel H., Wichita Falls,
Texas.
Burruss, Mrs. Nathaniel, Norfolk, Va.
Burwell, Armistead, Charlotte, N. C.
Burwell. D. S.. Norfolk, Va.
Callahan, G. C, Philadelphia, Pa.
Cameron, Alexander, Richmond, Va.
Cameron, Col. Benehan, Stagville, N. C.
Cannon, G. Randolph, Richmond, Va.
Capps, W. L., U. S. N.
Cargill, Mrs. T. A., Houston, Texas.
Carr, Brig. Gen. C. C. C. U. S. A., Chicago,
111.
Carter, Hill, Ashland, Va.
Cartwright, Mrs. S. A. Brooke, Washington,
D. C.
Gary, T. Archibald, Richmond, Va.
Cary, Wilson Miles, Baltimore, Md.
Casey, Prof. Joseph J., New York. N. Y.
Chamberlayne, Churchill G., Richmond,
Va.
Chandler, Prof. J. A. C, Richmond, Va.
Chandler, R. G., Chicago. III.
Chandler, Walter T., Chicago. 111.
Chauncy, Mrs. Agnes C, Narberth, Pa.
Chilton, W. B., Washington. D. C.
Christian, Judi^e Geo. L., Richmond, Va.
Christian, Walter, Richmond, Va.
Clark, Mrs. Edward H., New York, N. Y.
Clark, Wm. Hancock, New York, N, Y.
Clark, Rev. W. M., Richmond, Va.
Clarke, P. N., Louisville. Ky.
Clayton, Joseph C, Brooklyn N. Y.
Clement, .Mrs. N. E., Chatham, Va.
Clyde, W. P., New York, N. Y.
Cobb, Wm. H.,Elkins, W. Va.
Cocke. Dr. W. Irby, Port Washington, N. Y.
Coe Brothers, Springfield, III.
Coffin, Charles P., Brookline, Mass.
Coke, Captain John A., Richmond, Va.
Coleman, Charles W., Washington, D. C.
Coles, Mrs. T. B., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Colston, Edward, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Conrad, Major Holmes, Winchester, Va.
Cook, Miss Mary E., Columbus, Ga.
Cooke, Dr. G. Wythe, Washington. D. C.
Cooke, John H., Richmond, Va.
Coolidge, Archibald C, Cambridge. Mass.
Corbin, Richard W., Paris, France.
Corbett. Mrs. L. G., Greenville, S. C.
Coulling, Miss Martha Willis, Farmville, Va.
Coutant, Dr. R. S., Tarrytown, N. Y.
Cram, Mrs. R. A., Boston, Mass.
Crenshaw, S. Dabney, Richmond, Va.
Cridlin, W. B., Richmond, Va.
Crittenden, W. L., Stigler, Okla.
Croasdaile, Mrs. Richard, Canton, Ohio.
Crocker, Major J. F., Portsmouth, Va.
Crozier, Wm. A., Hasbrouck Heights, N. J.
Crump, Beverly T., Richmond, Va.
Culleton, Leo., London, Eng.
Cutright, W. B. Buckhannon, W. Va.
Dabney, Dr. William M., Baltimore, Md.
Dabney, Prof. R. H., University of Va.
Daingerfield, Francis Lee, Alexandria, Va.
Dandridge, Miss Mary E., Cincinnati, O.
Darling, Mrs. Frank W., Hampton, Va.
Daughters, A. R., Auburn, Ala.
Daughters, A. R., Washington, D, C.
Davenport, G. A., Richmond, Va.
Denham, Edward, New Bedford, Mass.
Dickey, Lyle A.. Lihue, H. T.
Dismukes, Elisha P., Columbus, Ga.
Doran, J. J., Philadelphia, Pa.
Doremus, Mrs. C. A., New York. N. Y.
Draper, Mrs. James R., Oxford, Ala.
Duke, Judge R. T. W., Jr., Charlottesville.
Va.
Dunn, John, M. D., Richmond, Va.
Dupont, Col. H. A., Wintcrthur, Del.
Durrett. Col. R. T., Louisville. Ky.
Duval, Miss Maria P.. Staunton, Va.
Dwight, Dr. E. W., Boston, Mass.
E.-isley, J. C, Richmond, Va.
East, John P.. New York. N. Y.
Eaton, George G., Washington. D. C.
Eckenrode, Dr. H. J., Richmond, Va.
Ellctt, Miss Virginia R., Richmond, Va.
Ellis. Wade H., Washington, D. C.
Ellyson, Hon. J. Taylor, Richmond. Va.
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Empie, Adam, Wilmington, N. C.
English, Mrs. W. E., Indianapolis, Ind.
Eskridge, R. S., Seattle, Wash.
Etistace, Wm. Corcoran, Oatlands, Va.
Farragut, Loyall, New York, N. Y.
Farrar, Edgar H., New Orleans, La.
Feild. W. P., Little Rock. Ark.
Ferrell, Mrs. Chas, C, Anson, Tex.
Fife, Prof. R. H., Middletown, Conn.
Fitzhugh, Gen. Chas. L., Pittsburg, Pa.
Fitzhugb. E. H., Montreal, Can.
Fletcher, William Meade, Philadelphia, Pa.
Fontaine, W. W. Austin, Tex.
Foster, Mrs. Kate Calvert, Fosston, Minn,
Fountain, General S. W., U. S. A., Devon,
Pa.
Fox. Fred. L., Sutton, W. Va.
Frances, Mrs. Charles E., Bedford, Ind.
Freeman. D. S.. Richmond, Va.
French. Jno. Hemdon. New York. N. Y.
Frost. Mrs. George R.. Houston, Va.
Gaines. C. Carrington. Poughkeepsie. N, Y.
Garland, Spotswood, Wilmington, Del.
Gay. Edward S., Atlanta. Ga.
Gibson. Rt. Rev. Robt. A.. Richmond, Va.
Gilbert, Mrs. R. M.. New York. N. Y.
Glover. Rolfe E.. Richmond. Va.
Good. D. Saylor, Roanoke. Va.
Goodwyn, Mrs. W. S., Emporia. Va.
Gordon, Armstead C, Staunton, Va.
Gray. Henry W., Jr.. Hartford, Conn.
Gray. W. F.. Richmond. Va.
Green. B. W.. M. D., Charlottesville. Va.
Gregory. Edwin C. Salisbury, N. C.
Gregory, George C, Richmond. Va.
Grigsby. Oscar, Maysville, Ky.
Grinnan. Judge Daniel. Richmond, Va.
Grinnan, John C, Norfolk. Va.
Hagan, John C. Richmond, Va.
Hamilton, Alexander, Petersburg, Va.
Hardy, Miss Stella Pickett, Batesville. Ark.
Harris, A. B. B., Chicago, 111.
Harrington, Howard S., New York. N. Y.
Harris Alfred T.. Jr., Richmond, Va.
Harris, Graham H.. Greenwood, Va.
Harris, John T.. Jr., Harrisonburg, Va.
Harrison. Francis Burton, Washington,
D.C.
Harrison, Geo. T., M.|D., CharlottesvHle.Va.
Harrison, Robert L.. New York, N. Y.
Harrison, W. Preston., Chicago, 111.
Harvie. Miss Anne F.. Richmond. Va.
Hawes, S. H., Richmond, Va.
Heath, James E., Norfolk, Va.
Heffelfinger, Jacob, Hampton, Va.
Hempstone, W. D., Leesburg. Va.
Herbert, Col. Arthur, Alexandria, Va.
Herndon, J. W., Alexandria. Va.
Higgins, Mrs. D. F., Joliet, 111.
Hill. W. M., Richmond, Va.
Hine, Major Charles DeLano, Vienna, Va.
Hogg. Mrs. Clara H. D., Cadiz, Ohio.
HoUaday. A., Randolph. Richmond, Va.
Holmes, J. T.. Columbus. Ohio.
Holt. R. O., Lorton, Va.
Hord, Rev. A. H., Germantown, Pa.
Howard, Mrs. Eleanor Washington, 'Alex-
andria, Va.
Howard, Major McH., Baltimore, Md.
Hughes, A. S.. Denver. Col.
Hunt, Gaillard. Washington. D. C.
Hunter. James W.. Norfolk. Va.
Hunter, Major Robert W., Washington,
D.C.
Hurt. George F, Atlanta. Ga.
Hutcheson, H. P., Boydton. Va.
Hutcheson. Mrs. J. C, Houston. Texas.
Hutchins. W. S.. Washington. D. C.
Hutchinson. Gary T.. New York. N. Y.
Hyde, Mrs. Charles R., Lookout Mountain,
Tenn.
Jameson, Mrs. S. W., Roanoke, Va.
Jarman, Prof. J. L., Farmville, Va.
Jeffress, T. F., Drewry's Bluff. Va.
Jenkins, Luther H., Richmond, Va.
Jewett, W. K.. Colorado Springs. Col.
Johnson, B. P., Richmond, Va.
Johnson, Mrs. Mary R.. East Orange. N. J.
Johnston, Christopher, M. D.. Baltimore,
Md.
Johnston. Dr. Geo. Ben., Richmond. Va.
Johnston. Miss Mary. Richmond, Va.
Jones. Fairfax C. Richmond, Va.
Jones, W. Strother, Red Bank, N. J.
Jordan. Scott, Chicago, 111,
Junkin, Francis T. A., Chicago, 111.
Keach, Mrs. O. A.. Wichita. Kan.
Keim. Mrs. Betty L.. Philadelphia. Pa.
Kemper. Charles E.. Washington, D. C.
Kent, Prof. C. W., University of Va.
Kerr, A. E., Grafton, W. Va.
Kinney. Mrs. Harry W.. Cincinnati. Ohio.
Lacey. Mrs. John W.. Cheyenne. Wyo.
Lamb. E. T.. Norfolk. Va.
Lambert, Mrs. W. H.. Germantown. Pa.
La Monte, Geo. M., Bound Brook, N. J.
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Lancaster, R. A., Jr., Richmond, Va.
Lams, John R., Baltimore, Md.
Lathrop, Bryan, Chicago, 111.
Leach, James A., Richmond, Va.
Leake, J. Jordan, Richmond, Va.
Lecky, Robert, Jr., Richmond, Va.
Lee, Blair, Washington, D. C.
Lee. Captain R. E., West Point, Va.
Lee. R. E., Jr., Fairfax County, Va.
Le Grande, Mrs. J. H., Tyler, Texas.
Leigh, Egbert G., Jr., Richmond, Va.
Letcher, S., Houston, Lexington, Va.
Levy, Jefferson M., New York, N. Y.
Lewis, Charles, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Lewis, Lunsford, L., Richmond, Va.
Lodge, Hon. H. C. Washington. D. C.
Logan, Rev. P. B., New Wilmington, Pa.
Lomax, E. L., San Francisco, Cal.
Long, E. McL.. New York, N. Y.
Lorton, Heth, New York. N. Y.
Low, Joseph T., New York, N. Y.
Loyall, Captain B. P., Norfolk, Va.
Lukeman H. Augustus. New York, N. Y.
Lyster. Mrs. H. F. L.. Detroit, Mich.
Mabry, W. S., Selma, Ala.
Maddox, E. L., Grand Rapids, Mich.
Mallory, Lt. C. K., U. S. N., Syracuse,
N. Y.
Mallory, Lt.-Col. J. S., U. S. A.. Governor's
Island, N. Y.
Maloney, Mrs. Eva Grant. New Castle, Va.
Markham. George D., St. Louis, Mo.
Martin, R. C, Albemarle Louisiana.
Mastin, Mrs. George R., Lexington, Ky.
Matthews, Albert, Boston, Mass.
Mayer, Levy, Chicago, 111.
Mayo, E. C, Richmond, Va.
Mayo, P. H., Richmond, Va.
Mercer, Mrs. William P.. Elm City, N. C.
Meredith, Charles V., Richmond, Va.
Meredith, Philip T., Harrisburg, Pa.
Meriwether, Mrs. Minor, Loudoun Co., Va.
Merrill, Mrs. Lida W., Terre Haute, Ind.
Miller, Mrs. Anna M., Atlanta, Ga.
Miller, Rudolph P., New York, N. Y.
MinniEerode, Mrs. Susan T., Trenton, N. J.
Mitchell, Kirkwood, Richmond, Va.
Moffett. Miss Edna V., Wellesley, Mass.
Montague, Hill, Richmond, Va.
Montgomery, William G.. Birmingham, Ala.
Moore, J. Staunton. Richmond, Va.
Moore, Warner, Richmond, Va.
Morehead, C. R., El Paso, Texas.
Morehart, Mrs. Lillian B., Mankato, Minn.
Morgan, Dr. D. H., Amelia C. H., Va.
Morton, Miss Hattie, Birmingham, Ala.
Munford, Mrs. Beverley B.. Richmond, Va.
Munford. R. B., Jr., Richmond, Va.
Myers, Barton, Norfolk, Va.
McAllister, A. S., New York, N. Y.
McAllister, J. T., Hot Springs, Va.
McBryde, Dr. J. M., Blacksburg, Va.
McCabe, Capt. W. Gordon. Richmond, Va.
McCaleb, Major Thomas S., U. S. A., Rich-
mond, Va.
McCluer, W. B., Chicago. 111.
McConnell, Prof. J. P., Emory. Va.
McCormick, R. Hall, Chicago, 111.
McCormick, Harold F., Chicago, 111.
McCue, John N., Crystal City, Mo.
McDonnel, Mrs. Eugene, Baltimore, Md.
McFadden, Charles, Jr., Philadelphia. Pa.
McGraw. John T., Grafton. W. Va.
McGuire, Dr. Edward, Richmond, Va.
McGuire, Mrs. Frank H., Richmond, Va.
McGuire, John Peyton, Jr., Richmond, ,Va.
McGuire, Murray M., Richmond, Va.
Mcllwaine, Dr. H. R., Richmond, Va.
Mcllwaine, W. B., Petersburg, Va.
McKenny, Virginia Spotswood, Petersburg,
Va.
McNiel, Mrs. Walter, Richmond, Va.
Neilson, Miss Lou, Oxford, Miss.
Nicoll, Mrs. DeLancy, New York, N. Y.
Nicholls, Rt. Rev. W. F., SanMateo, Cal.
Nixon, Lewis, New York, N. Y.
Norvell, Mrs. Lipscomb, Beaumont, Texas.
Ogden, H. C, Wheeling, W. Va.
Ogden, Robt. C, New York, N; Y.
Otter, John B., Louisville, Ky.
Outerbridge, Mrs. A. J., New York, N.'.Y.
Owen, Thomas M., Montgomery. Ala.
Page, Mrs. Mann, Elizabeth, N, J.
Page, S. Davis. Philadelphia, Pa.
Page, Rosewell, Richmond, Va.
Page, Thomas Nelson, Washington, D. C.
Palmer, Col. William H., Richmond, Va.
Parrish, Robert L., Covington, Va.
Parker, Col. John, Browsholme Hall.Cle-
thiroe, Lancashire, Eng.
Parker, W. S. R., Beaumont, Texas.
Patterson. James A., Philadelphia, Pa.
Patteson. S. S. P., Richmond, Va.
Payne, John B., Chicago. 111.
Pegram, Robert B., Charleston, S. C.
Penn, Mrs. James G., Danville, Va.
Pennington, William C, Baltimore, Md.
Pescud, Peter F., New Orlean , La.
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Peterkin, Mrs. George W., Parkersburg,
W. Va.
Pettus. William J., M. D., U. S. Marine
Hospital Service, Washington, D. C.
Phelps, Wm. B., Duluth. Minn.
Pickett, Thomas E., M. D., Maysville, Ky.
Pinckard, W. P., Birmingham, Ala.
Pinckney, C. C, Richmond, Va.
Pleasants. Edwin, Richmond, Va.
Pleasants, Dr. J. Hall, Baltimore, Md.
Pleasants, William H., Hollins, Va.
Plummer, Miss Lucy D., Chicago, 111.
Poindexter, Judge Miles, Spokane, Wash.
Poindexter, C. E., Jeffersonville, Ind.
Poindexter, W. W., Lynchburg, Va.
Pollard, Henry R., Richmond, Va.
Powell, J. E., Washington, D. C.
Prentiss, Judge R. R., Suffolk,. Va.
Price, Theodore H., New York, N. Y.
Pugh, A. H., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Purcell, Col. J. B., Richmond, Va.
Ragland, Ashby T., Richmond, Va.
Raines, Dr. Thomas H., Savannah, Ga.
Raine, T. C, New York, N. Y.
Ramsay, Mrs. Clarise Sears, Westover, Va.
Randolph, Beverley S., Berkeley Springs.
W. Va.
Randolph, Rt. Rev. A.M.,D.D., Norfolk.Va.
Randolph, Epes, Tucson, Ariz.
Randolph, Edward, New York, N. Y.
Randolph, Tom, St. Louis, Mo.
Redman, Ray C, Vincennes. Ind.
Reymann, Mrs. P. 0., Wheeling, W. Va.
Richardson, Albert Levin, Baltimore, Md.
Richardson, Wm. D., Fredericksburg, Va.
Ridgeley, Mrs. Jane M., Springfield, 111.
Rives, Mrs. W. C, Washington. D. C.
Robards. Col. John Lewis, Hannibal, Mo.
Roberson, Mrs. J. Fall, Cropwell, Ala.
Robertson, Frank S., Abingdon, Va.
Robertson, John C, Richmond, Va
Robertson, M. L., Dallas. Texas.
Robertson, Thos. B.. EastviUe, Va.
Robins, Dr. C. R., Richmond. Va.
Robinson, Alexander G., Louisvi'le, Ky.
Robinson. Judge C. W., Newport News. Va.
Robinson, P. M., Clarksburg, W. Va.
Rockwell, Mrs. Eckley, Washington, D. C.
Roller, Gen. John E., Harrisonburg, Va.
Roper, Bartlett. Sen., Petersburg, Va.
Rose, Mrs. Charles A., Richmond, Va.
Rowland, Miss Kate Mason, Richmond, Va.
Rucker, Mrs. B. H., Rolla, Mo.
Ryan, Thos, F., New York, N. Y.
[lands, Conway R., Richmond, Va.
Savage, N. R., Richmond, Va.
Scherr, Henry, Williamson, W. Va.
Schouler, Prof. James, Intervale, N. H.
Schuck. L. E., St. Louis, Mo.
Scott, George Cole, Richmond, Va.
Scott, W. W., Richmond, Va.
Semmes, Raphael T., Savannah, Ga.
Sevier, O'Neal, New York, N. Y.
Shelton, Mrs. Jane R. G.. St. Louis, Mo.
Shine, Dr. Francis Eppes, Bisbee, Ariz.
Shippen, Mrs. Rebecca Lloyd, Baltimore*
Md.
Sim, John R., New York. N, Y.
Sitterding, Fritz, Richmond, Va.
Slaughter, A. D., Chicago, 111.
Smith, George G., D. D., Macon, Ga.
Smith, H. M., Jr., Richmond. Va.
Smith, Mrs. Malcolm, Wichita, Kan.
Smith, Mrs. Rosa Wright, FortSill. Okla.
Smith, J. W., Ottawa, Ohio.
Smith, Willis B., Richmond, Va.
Smith, Captain, R. C, U. S. N.. Washing-
ton, D. C.
Smith, W. D. G., Castleton, Vt.
Southall, Rev. S. O., Hanever, Va.
Spears, Harry D., New York, N. Y.
Spencer, Mrs. Samuel, Washington, D. C.
Spencer, J. H., Martinsville, Va.
Spilman, Gen. B. W., Warrenton, Va.
Spotswood, Mrs. W. F., Petersburg, Va.
Stanard, W. G.. Richmond, Va.
Staton, Mrs. James G., Williamston, N. C.
Steiger, E., New York, N. Y.
Stettinins, Mrs. E. R., Dongan Hill, Staten
Island, N. Y.
Stevens, B. F. and Brown, London, Eng.
Stewart, Miss Annie C, Brook Hill, Va.
Stewart, Miss E. Hope, "
Stewart, Miss Norma, *
Stewart, Miss Lucy W., "
Stewart, Rev. J. Calvin, Richmond, Va.
Stewart, J. A., Louisville, Ky.
Stith, Charles H., New Bern, N. C.
Stone, Mrs. Mary F., W.ishington, D. C.
Stone, Miss Lucie, P., HoHins. Va.
Strater, Mrs. Charles G., Louisville, Ky.
Strother, Henry, Fort Smith, Ark.
Strother, Hon. P. W., Pearisburg, Va.
Stuart, Henry C, Elk Garden, Va.
Symington, Miss Edith, Winston-Salem.
N. C.
Taliaferro, Mrs. Richard P., WareNeck, Va.
Taylor.Edgar D., Richmond, Va.
Taylor, Dr. Fielding L., New York, N. Y.
Taylor, Prof, T. U., Austin, Texas.
Taylor, W. E., Norfolk, Va.
Terhune. Mrs. E. T., New York, N. Y.
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Thomas, Douglas H., Baltimore, Md.
Thomas, R. S., Smithfield. Va.
Thompson, Mrs. Maurice, Crawfordsville,
Ind.
Thompson, Mrs. W. H., Lexington, Ky.
Thornton, Mrs. Champa F., Norfolk, Va.
Thornton, R. G., Richmond, Va.
Throckmorton, C. WicklifiFe, Beaumont,
Texas.
Thurston, R. C, Ballard, Louisville, Ky.
Tidball, Prof. Thomas A., Sewanee, Tenn.
Toulmin, Prof. H. A., Jr., Dayton, Ohio.
Travers, S. W., Richmond, Va.
Trippe, Mrs. M. W.. New York. N. Y.
Tucker, H. St. George, Norfolk, Va.
Tunstall, Richard B., Norfolk, Va.
Tunstall. Robert B., Norfolk, Va.
Turner, D. L., New York. N. Y.
Turner, Van Arsdale B.. Dover, Del.
Tyler, Prof. Lyon G., Willamsburg, Va.
Undetwood. Gen. John C. New York, N. Y.
Underwood, William T., Birmingham. Ala.
Valentine. B. B.. Richmond, Va.
Valentine, E. v., "
Valentine, G. G., *
Valentine. M. S., Jr., "
Victor, E. K., Richmond, Va.
Vincent, George A., Fairmoumt, W. Va.
Waggener, B. P., Atchison, Kan.
Walke, Cornelius, Ossining, N. Y.
Walke, Mrs. Frank Anthony, Norfolk, Va.
Walker, G. A., Gee P. O., Va.
Walker, Mrs. J. A., Brownwood, Texas.
Walker, J. G., Richmond. Va.
Waller, E. P., Schenectady, N. Y.
WalHng, Mrs. WiUoughby, Chicago. 111.
Warren, L. R.. Richmond. Va.
Washburne. Mrs. Mary M., Louisville. Ky.
Washington. Joseph E., Wessyngton. Tenn.
Washington. R. L., Atlanta, Ga.
Washington, W. Do H.. New York.
Watts. Mrs. C. L.. Charlotte. N. C.
Watts. Judge Legh R.. Portsmouth. Va.
Wayland, J. W., Harrisonburg, Va.
Webster, Admiral Hatrie, U. S. N., Rich-
mond, Va.
Wellford, B. Rand, Richmond, Va.
Wertenbaker, Prof. T. G.. Princeton Uni-
versity, Princeton, N. J.
White, J. B., Kansas City, Mo.
White. Miles. Jr., Baltimore. Md.
White, William H.. Richmond. Va.
Whitehurst. Dr. M. Morris. Baltimore, Md.
Whitner. Charles F., Atlanta. Ga.
Whitridge. Mrs. Wm. H.. Baltimore, Md.
Whitty, J. H., Richmond, Va.
Wilkinson, Dr. Walter W., Washington.
D. C.
Willard, Mrs. Joseph E., Fairfax Co., Va.
Williams, E. Randolph, Richmond, Va.
Williams. Mrs. F. L.. Bristol. R. 1.
Williams, Harrison, New York, N. Y.
Williams, John Skelton, Richmond, Va.
Williams, Langbourne M.. Richmond, Va.
Williams. Mrs. S. W.. Richmond. Va.
Williamson. H. M.. Portland, Oregon.
Williamson. J. T.. Columbia. Tenn.
Wilson. Capt. Eugene T., U. S. A., Cristo
bal. Canal Zone.
Wilson. Mrs. Howard T.. Verden. III.
Winston. James O.. Kingston, N. Y.
Wise, Mrs. Barton H., Richmond, Va.
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PROCEEDINGS
Virginia Historical Society
ANNUAL MEETING
HELD IN THE
HOUSE OF THE SOCIETY
February 15, 1913.
MITCHELL & HOTCHKISS
PRINTERS TO THE SOCIETY
RICHMOND, VA.
PROCEEDINGS
Virginia Historical Society
IN
Annual Meeting Held February 15, 1913.
The Annual Meeting was held at the Society's House, 707
East Franklin Street, on Saturday, February 15th, at 4.30,
P. M. The meeting was called to order with President Mc Cabe
in the chair.
The first business was the reading of the President's report,
(which is printed below). Mr. Robert A. Lancaster, Jr., Treas-
urer of the Society, read his Annual Report, which is, as usual,
here printed with that of the President.
Annual Report of the President of the Virginia
Historical society.
I have the honor to submit the following Report, giving in
detail the work of the Society and presenting a precise statement
of its condition as to finances, membership, and property for the
year ending Nov. 30, 1912.
While no events or enterprises specifically noteworthy have
marked the history of the Society during this time, the anti-
quarian has only to compare the meagre "Proceedings" of
eighty years ago when John Marshall (our first President) and
Rives and Gushing and other illustrious men essayed with
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such original material as was known to them, to perpetuate the
glories of the "Old Dominion" — one has only to compare what
was then done, with the rich and varied contents of our Maga-
zine of to-day (and indeed for a score of years past) , to recog-
nize instantly how great has been the advance not only in
wealth of original matter, but in the precise methods of its
scientific presentation.
Membership
But in one respect these illustrious pioneers and their follow-
ers who made the Society possible, were guided by a virtue that
we have only partially attained — they paid their debts.
It is, indeed, with a deep-seated repugnance that we have
again to dwell on the failtire of so many of ovir members to pay
their annual dues and are driven once more to remonstrate with
so many delinquents, who are abundantly able to pay, yet, who,
through culpable negligence or through an indifference almost
cynical, are deaf to the coiu-teous "reminders" of our collector.
If these members could only be brought to realize how their
failiire to pay their just debts often embarrasses the Society
(which scrupulously pays its own), perhaps, they would, for
very shame's sake, cease their inexcusable negligence (to use the
most charitable phrase), and by prompt payment enable our ac-
complished Editor and the Executive Committee to broaden the
scope of the Magazine in certain directions already mapped out.
In accordance with the warning contained in our last Annual
Report, we dropped a considerable number of the most persis-
tent of these delinquents, but the warning was not imiversally
heeded, and it looks as if we shall have within a few weeks to
protect oiurselves by making use of the same drastic procedure.
Let us repeat here that notwithstanding a majority of these de-
linquents are abimdantly able to pay their dues, there was still
due the Society at the end of the fiscal year just ended the con-
siderable sum of foiu* hundred dollars.
It is, however, only just to add that some of these have paid,
while this report was in preparation.
PROCEEDINGS. V
The Executive Committee is determined to purge oiu* rolls
completely of these conscienceless men and women who (to
alter Shakespere a trifle) apparently consider it a sign of base
slavery ever to pay, and who, regardless of the largely increased
cost of bringing out the Magazine, accept our publications as
a sort of inherent right.
Nay, more, in the statement given above, there is not includ-
ed a considerable amoimt of money due the Society by members,
who explicitly pledged themselves to pay dues so long as their
names remained on our rolls (be the time long or short), but who
finding the Magazine interesting, have not held to their pledges,
putting us off with the shabbiest of evasions. Of course, most of
this money will never be collected, and "a last appeal" in this
case is absolutely useless.
Yet despite all this, the year has been on the whole a mate-
rially prosperous one, and it is gratifying to state that, after
making all deductions due to our unusually large and mournful
necrology, to a few resignations, and to the delinquents dropped
(as mentioned above) , our membership has increased from 758
to 768, a net gain of ten over last year.
And it is pertinent to draw special attention just here to the
fact, that though the payment of dues has not been what we
confidently expected after our former purging of the roll, the
subjoined Treasurer's Report evidences conclusively that the fi-
nancial condition of the Society is stronger than ever before.
Treasurer's Report
To The Virginia Historical Society.
I have the honor to submit the following annual report for the fiscal
year ending Nov. 30, 1912.
Balance in Bank Dec. 1, 1912 S987.60
Receipts.
Annual Dues $3075.55
Life Members 100.00
Sale of Magazines 136.85
Sale of Publications 6.00
Interest 630.78
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Rent 150.00
Advertising 35.50
Gift from Mrs. Byam K. Stevens for
Permanent Fund 50.00 4184.68
5172 28
Disbursements.
Salaries $1799.98
Wages 305.00
Postage and Express 109.21
Repairs 186.25
Books, binding and Stationery 104.24
Sundry Bills 244.18
Printing Magazines 1027.25
To Permanent Fund 1250.00
Insurance 6. 00
Checks returned 24.50 5056.61
Balance in Bank Nov. 30, 19121 115.67
$5172.28
Permanent Fund.
3% Certificate of Deposit $2000.00
Mortgage, 5% from January 19, 1909 1000.00
Mortgage, 5% running three years from July 11, 1910 5500.00
Fifteen (15) Shares of stock in the Citizen's Bank of Nor-
folk, Va., paying 12% dividend, estimated value 3900.00
$12400.00
In accordance with an order of the Executive Committee the Treasurer
presents the following tabulated statement, showing the sources from
which the Permanent Fund is derived. What is termed "The Society's
Fund" comprises the amoimt the Committee has been able to save
from year to year out of the ordinary revenues of the Society.
The Virginia Sturdivant McCabe Fund, given by the Pres-
ident of the Society in memory of his granddaughter, Vir-
ginia Sturdivant McCabe, born February 1, 1906, died
August 11, 1909 500.00
The Jane Pleasants Harrison Osborne McCabe Fund given by
the President of the Society in loving memory of his wife
Jane Pleasants Harrison Osborne McCabe, who died No-
vember 22, 1912 500.00
Daughters of the Ame«dcan Revolution Fund 100 . 00
Byam K. Stevens Fund 650.00
Edward Wilson James Fund 3900.00
Society's Fund 6750.00
$12400.00
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It is very gratifying to note that since the last report the Permanent
Fimd has increased $1300.00. Of this Amoiant $550.00 was derived from
gifts, $300 . 00 from an increased value of bank stock and $450 . 00 added by
the Committee from the earnings of the Society. This last addition was
made in part from the receipts of two years.
Mrs. Byam K. Stevens of New York City has added $50.00 to the gift
of her late husband. This amount was duly acknowledged when received
but the Executive Committee desires again to thank Mrs. Stevens. The
first addition our Permanent Fvind received from an individual was from
Mr. Stevens and we are not only grateful to Mrs. Stevens for her kindness
but glad to have her name on our roll of members.
The gift from the President of the Society to the Permanent Fund, at
a time of deep personal sorrow, has caused the Committee to direct me
to include in my report and to read to this meeting an expression of our
gratitude, affection and sympathy and to assure him that this memorial
to one, who in birth and character represented the best traditions of
Virginia womanhood, shall be forever preserved.
R. A. LANCASTER, JR.,
Treasurer.
Additions to the Library.
The additions to the Library in books and pamphlets number
569 for the year
The donors of books, to whom we desire to make special and
most grateful acknowledgment, are ; Messrs James Branch Ca-
bell, Gabriel Edmonston, P. H. Baskervill, Henry P. Ruggles,
William C. Lusk, Floyd C. Shoemaker, John W. Townsend,
Richard A. Austen-Leigh, M. A., (of England), Matthew P. An-
drews, Woodberry Lowery, A. M. Pritchard, Thos. Willing
Balch, John C. Underwood, M. W. Seymour, W. S. R. Parker,
Gaston Lichenstein, Albert Matthews, Morgan P. Robinson,
St. George T. C. Bryan, Henry R. Pollard, Oren F. Morton, J.
C. McMasters, Philip Alexander Bruce, William G. Stanard,
and Jas. F. Jameson (historians); Rev'^. D. M. Vorhees, D. D.;
Professors C. H. Firth, J. P. McConnell and Alfred J. Morrison;
Doctors Beverly W. Bond, Jr., J. G. B. Bulloch, McGiiire New-
ton, and J. L. Miller; Col. Bennett H. Young, and Judge T. R.
B. Wright; Mesdames C. R. Hyde, J. B. Henneman, Charles
Howard, Charies B. Ball, Wm. G. Stanard, Mary Selden Ken-
nedy, and Miss Stella P. Hardy.
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In addition (and quite apart from our great number of histori-
cal and genealogical "Exchanges"), we have to note, with grate-
ful acknowledgments, the reception of publications from the
following institutions and organizations : the Virginia State Li-
brary; the St. Andrew's Society of New York; the New York
Bible and Prayer-Book Society; the Order of Foimders and
Patriots of America; the Pennsylvania Society of Colonial
Dames; the American Antiquarian Society; the United
Daughters of the Confederacy; the Mt. Vernon Ladies' Associa-
tion; the Commission on Archives of the General Conven-
tion of the P. E. Church; the New Hampshire Bible Society; the
Royal Society of Canada; the Proceedings of the Society of the
Cincinnati in the States of Virginia, of New York, and of Dela-
ware; the Library of Congress; the U. S. National Museimi; the
Philadelphia Museums; the University of Alabama; the Uni-
versity of North Carolina; Randolph Macon College; the Na-
tional Society of the Sons of the American Revolution; the
Southern Society of New York ; the American Clan Gregor So-
ciety ; the Carnegie Institute ; and the Department of Archives
of the State of New York.
As always in preceding years, our library has been freely
open to the public and made constant use of, while it is no exag-
geration to say that the great majority of scholarly compilers or
authors who have essayed to deal with American Colonial his-
tory of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries or with Amer-
ican genealogies of those periods, have made extensive investi-
gations in our unique manuscript collections.
All accessions to the Library that have come to us unbound,
have been carefully catalogued and placed in stout cases (or
"binders"), which now number 250. Such pamphlets as are
too large for ordinary "binders" have been substantially bound
in cloth.
During the year, a large map-case has been placed in oiu" rooms
and a portion of "the Gilmer Collection" (an invaluable set of
contemporaneous war-maps (1861-64) made under the imme-
diate eye of the distinguished Confederate Chief of Engineers,
Major-Gen. J. F. Gilmer, and presented to the Society by his
daughter, Mrs. Louise Gilmer Minis, of Savannah, Georgia) has
PROCEEDINGS. IX
been arranged therein, so as to be easy of access to military
students. On close inspection it was decided that the remain-
ing maps needed some minute repairs, and as soon as these re-
pairs are all finished, the maps will be at once placed in their re-
spective cases.
As stated in our last report, this collection of maps is of the
first importance to scientific students of the war between the
States.
Gifts.
Among other gifts, one of the most notable is a large and hand-
some book-case which has attached to it a certain historic inter-
est, and which was presented to the society by MissWoodbridge,
Mrs. Goodnow and Mrs Bell, daughters of the Rev"*. Dr. George
Woodb ridge. Rector for many years of the Monumental chiirch
in this city, whom some of us remember to have seen busily
drilling the raw levies that every day poured into Richmond from
the South, for he vv^as a graduate of West Point, class-mate of
Albert Sidney Johnston and a staunch supporter of the Confed-
erate cause from start to finish. This book -case was made to
order for President Jeft'erson Davis, but he for some reason fail-
ing to take it, Dr. Woodbridge bought it. It is not only in
itself a very handsome piece of furniture, but it has proved of
great practical service to us in providing additional shelf -room,
of v/hich we still stand in grievous need.
We may note also (1) photographs of the Lee and Davis monu-
ments, given by William G. Stanard, (2) an old Seal ring bearing
the arms of Capt. John Smith (not the great John Smith, the vir-
tual founder of Virginia, whose arms are still fraudulently borne
by Major-General Sir Baden-Powell, but of Capt. John Smith, a
stout Gloucester county fanner), presented to the Society by his
direct lineal descendant Mrs. Mary G. Anderson, of Jackson-
ville, Fla.; (3) the MS. Account Book (1794-1822) of Dr. John
Walker, of "Kingston," Dinwiddle County, Va., presented by
Dr. John Walker Broadnax ; (4) thirty-one engravings and pho-
tographs of the Presidents and Trustees of Hampden-Sidney
College, given by Prof. Alfred J. Morrison, the accomplished
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historian of that famous old seat of learning; (5) a large collec-
tion of Confederate currency of aU denominations, from the
United States Treasury Department; (6) Land Grants signed by
the Royal Governors, Farquhar and Dinwiddle, and other MSS.
of value, presented by Miss Lucie P. Stone, of Hollins, Va.
All gifts of single manuscripts, photographs, etc., were ac-
knowledged by our Secretary at the time received, but we wish
to return our thanks again.
In view of the fact that ' ' dealers ' ' in the rich cities of the North
and West are keener than ever before in their quest of MSS. of
historic value, offering in a great many instances exorbitant
sums for them, and that owners of like MSS. in the South are
men of moderate means, who do not feel justified in giving away
letters and documents, the price of which would purchase many
substantial comforts for those nearest and dearest to them — it is
not likely that the Society's Collections wiU, in the future,
be increased by such liberal donations and bequests as in the
past.
Publication Committee.
Vol. XX of our Quarterly Magazine was published during
1912 and was conducted on the same high plane that its readers
look for in it, both at home and abroad..
The Randolph Manuscript (a compilation of Seventeenth Cen-
tury Records, the originals of which were long years ago destroy-
ed by fire), which has proved a priceless mine of first-hand in-
formation to all recent writers, who have undertaken to tell the
story of our earliest Colonial history, ran through the year (cov-
ering in the latest instalments the years 1688-90-92), as did
also various "Commissions" of Governor Nicholson and Lord
Orkney.
The second series of Miscellaneous Colonial Documents, cop-
ied from unpublished records in the Virginia State Library, was
brought to completion.
Mr. Lathrop Withington, owing to great pressure of profes-
sional business, was able to complete but two instalments of
his transcripts of the "Minutes of the Council and General
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Court of Virginia" (1622-24), but this keen antiquarian and
indefatigable scholar has recently sent us the remaining tran-
scripts of the first volume, and these will be published promptly
and without further interrruption.
It may be said, without fear of successful contradiction, that
no printed document whatever dealing with early Colonial Vir-
ginia history is of more solid and illumining value than these
"Minutes," of which we shall have a word to say further on,
when we touch upon our prospective plans.
Mr. Withington's, Virginia Gleanings in England, consisting of
extracts from wills relating to early settlers in Virginia, have been
published during the year, and, as heretofore, have attracted keen
interest and elicited much lauditory comment, shedding as they
do. in most delightful fashion, varied and most valuable side-
lights on the social and economic life of our early Colonial era.
We have not seldom before had ocassion to make special mention
of Mr. Withington's most generous services to this Society, but
we cannot refrain from expressing once more our cordial grati-
tude to this skilled antiquarian (who stands "at the very top"
of his craft) for the munificent gift of liis time, his money, and
trained learning, that he has made for so many years (and still
continues to make) to the single-minded end of supporting our
efforts to make better known to the world the true history of
this ancient Commonwealth.
Notable among these "Gleanings" published during this year
of 1912, have been the wills of Samuel Each, who came to Vir-
ginia as early as 1622 (the year of "the Great Massacre") "to
build a fort, " and of Col. Daniel Parke, who served on the Diike
of Marlborough's staff, and who, for splendid services on the
field, was chosen by that illustrious soldier to be the bearer of
despatches to her Majesty, Queen Anne, announcing the bril-
liant victory of Blenheim.
The Orderiy Books (1778-9) of the Continental Army have
been pubUshed in three instalments and continue to throw im-
portant light on the conduct of affairs in the anny serving im-
mediately under Washington.
Owing to pressure of official business, precisely as was the case
with Mr. Withington, Messrs Flagg and Waters were able to fur-
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nish us with but three instalments of their very important "Vir-
gmla Eevolutiomary Bibliography and Lists of Regimental Of-
ficers' ', but these steadfast friends of the Society are once more
busy at their task and the series will begin again during 1913.
The notable series of Abstracts by W. N. Sainsbury, as well
as the Complete Transcripts from the original papers in the Brit-
ish Public Records Office (now in the State Library and com-
monly known as the "De Jamette," "Winder," and "McDon-
ald ' ' Papers) have run through each number of the Magazine.
The year 1676 was reached in our collection of these "Abstracts, "
while another collection of the Complete Transcripts , from 1665
on, was begun in our pages. These papers, which consist mainly
of letters, though they also include communications of a more
formal character from the English Government to Virginia
Colonial officials (and vice-versa) , are of high historical import.
Among other important docimients that we have printed dur-
ing the year, are (1) copies of two very striking "Tobacco Acts ",
one of 1725, the other of 1729, neither of which can be found in
Hening's Statutes; (2) a number of Revolutionary "Pension
Declarations," from Pittsylvania County, Va., very helpful in
giving details of Militia Revolutionary service in the Common-
wealth; (3) a list of obituary notices contained in the Richmond
newspapers, ranging from 1788 to 1821, the value of which is
obvious to all engaged in biographical and genealogical research ;
(4) a collection of letters from George Washington Parke Custis
to his guardian and adoptive father, George Washington, and (5)
another collection of letters (notable for completeness and count-
less graphic touches) exchanged between George Hume or Home
(for the same pronunciation of the name obtains in Scotland,
whether spelled with an o or u), and his "ainfolk" over-seas —
he being a cadet of the famous Wedderbum family, who, having
settled as a young man in Virginia, kept up this spirited corres-
pondence with kinsmen in Scotland.
The other departments of our Magazine have been replete
with matter of historical value, sometimes amusing, sometimes
prosaic, but always throwing unconciously valuable side-lights
on the daily life of the time .
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In "Notes and Queries" have appeared (1) many transcripts
from historical documents in England; (2) from the records of
Prince Edward County, Va., in regard to the "Virginia Yazoo
Company" (3) a number of Confederate Copyrights of signal
value to Confederate Bibliographists; (4) a series of most
interesting extracts from what has been left (after the shameful
pillage by the Federal armies during '62 and '63) of the Colonial
records of Prince George and Caroline Counties, Va.; and (5)
numerous other "Notes" on historical and antiquarian subjects,
which it seemed best to us to classify imder this title.
The department of Book-Reviews has maintained its usual
high standard, the reviews in most cases, so far from being of a
perfimctory kind almost invariably supplementing the knowl-
edge of the author by additional information from the reviewer,
germane to the subject discussed. The same is true of the Ge-
nealogical section, which has kept up its long-established repu-
tation for rigid accuracy, while offering suggestive clues in
cases where absolute proof is lacking.
And now a word concerning the prospective plans of the Ed-
itor and our "Executive Committee"
As has been said above, it is now reasonably certain that the
Randolph Manuscript v/ill be finished during 1913, and it is
worth considering whether the whole of it (as presented in the
pages of the Magazine) shall not be offered to the public in
book-form at a moderate price. As regards the "Abstracts"
and Transcripts in full from the British Public Records Office,
already alluded to, it may be noted that our objective point in
this series (the year 1700) will probably not be reached until the
close of the coming year.
The first volume of the "Minutes of the Council and General
Court of Virginia (1622-24) will most probably be finished in
1913, and the presentation of the second volume in like consecu-
utive form demands careful consideration. It is to be borne in
mind that , in the earlier volumes of the Magazine, we have al-
ready printed every extract made years ago from this second
volume of Minutes by the late Conway Robinson , a profound
jurist, keen antiquarian and a most devoted member of this So-
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ciety, but it is known to close historical students that his omis-
sions were not infrequent. As to how much he did omit, can only
be determined by the most minute collation. On this hinges
the whole question of reproducing this second volume in its con-
secutive entirety.
It may also be noted here that there are now in the Congres-
sional Library many luipublished doctunents relating to this
period, transcribed of recent years (by the trained staff of the
Library's copyists) from the originals in the British Public
Records Office. All of these we propose to publish with the
generous consent of the officials of that great Library. When
we shall have done this and finished the Randolph Manuscript
and the Minutes of the Council and General Court, together
with some few other dociunents, the Committee will have ac-
complished its ambition to make accessible in print to histori-
cal students the whole body of Seventeenth Century documents,
that bear an intimate and essential relation to Virginia history
of that time.
We expect to finish during the coming year the Revolutionary
Orderly Books, and to begin again in our April number the se-
ries dealing with Virginia Soldiers of the Revolution . For a
continuation of Revolutionary Pension Claims space will also be
found. As our readers must have observed, the history of the
services of Virginia troops during the Revolution has become a
special feature of the Magazine, and it is our purpose to extend
more and more its scope in this direction. For instance, the
series of Legislative Petitions and other documents dealing with
the earlier periods of the Revolution, as well as those bearing on
events immediately subsequent to that momentous struggle
which were necessarily suspended some few years ago, will soon
be recommenced.
Of course. Notes and Queries, Genealogies, Book-Reviews,
Gleanings, and other established departments will be continu-
ed.
The Magazine it may be said without immodesty, has long
since won, and still holds, its place among the foremost historical
quarterlies and journals pubHshed whether at home or abroad,
and your Committee ventures again to make grateful acknowl-
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edgment of the learning, industry, and consumate skill of its
editor, Mr. Wm. G. Stanard, whose name, despite his innate
modesty, is a "household word" to scholars and antiquarians
the world over.
Sister Societies.
The chief work of the "Association for the Preservation of
Virginia Antiquities," during the year 1912, has been the ex-
quisite restoration and appropriate refurnishing of the old
"John Marshall House. " No doubt, before this report is read,
it will be open to the public, who will wander with delight
through the simple, yet spacious mansion of "the great Chief
Justice, " whose refined home it was for so many happy years.
The "Colonial Dames of America in the State of Virginia"
have arranged to mark with appropriate tablets the birth-places
of Presidents of the United States, who were bom and reared in
our "Old Dominion."
Necrology.
Life Members.
J. C. Langhome, Salem, Va.
W. L. Sheppard, Richmond, Va.
Annual Members.
J. LiNwooD Antrim, Richmond, Va.
Mrs. Catherine Throckmorton Breeding, Philadelphia,
Pa.
Dr. G. C. Greenway, Hot Springs, Ark.
Adrian H. Joline, New York City.
Dr. Sterling Loving, Columbus, Ohio (died 1911)
James Martin, Philadelphia, Pa. (died 1911)
J. H. NoBLiT, Philadelphia, Pa. (died 1911)
Mrs. Eliza L. Potwin, Chicago, 111.
Ro. G. Rennolds, Richmond, Va.
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James M. Rice, Peoria, 111.
John Vermillion, Norfolk, Va.
William Minor Woodward, Richmond, Va.
Over all of them, we breathe our simple, yet heart-felt requi-
escant.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
W. GORDON Mc CASE,
President.
On motion Vice-President Valentine was requested to take
the Chair and the thanks of the Society were returned to Presi-
dent McCabe for his report and his services to the Society.
Mr. W. G. Stanard stated that he desired to call the attention
of the Society to the valuable collection of unpublished papers
relating to the early history of Virginia, which are in the Li-
brary of Congress, especially the copies made by Miss Kingsbury
from the Ferrar papers. On motion the Corresponding Secretary
was directed, if the consent of the Librarian of Congress be ob-
tained, to have photostat copies made of a certain number of
these papers.
The attention of the meeting was called to a report that the
very valuable supplementary list of Virginia Revolutionary
Soldiers (containing about 18,000 names) which has been pre-
pared by the State Library might not be printed.
On motion it was imanimously resolved that Messrs McCabe
and Stanard be requested to call on the State Librarian or the
Governor of Virginia, and m-ge the publication at once of this
very important list, and the follov/ing resolutions, offered by
Mr. Morgan P. Robinson were also adopted, the measures pre
scribed in them to be taken if necessary.
WHEREAS, the Virginia State Library Report for 1911 con-
tained, as the report of the Department of Archives and History,
a List of Revolutionary Soldiers of Virginia, containing the names
of some thirty-six thousand (36,000) Virginians,'^ who partici-
pated in the Revolution; and
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WHEREAS, the Report not only made no claim to even an
approximate completeness, but also anticipated a continuation
of this work through the publication of supplemental reports
from time to time, as additional data should become available;
and
WHEREAS, at the time of the preparation of this initial Re-
port, no access was permitted to the large mass of records on
file in the Adjutant General's Office in Washington; and
WHEREAS, by War Department Orders of March 26th,
1912, access is now permitted to these records, and in accor-
dance therewith the State Library has at much expense had
photostat copies made of several hundred muster-rolls of Vir-
ginia troops, from which copies, the Department of Archives
and History prepared a supplemental Report, containing some
eighteen thousand (18,000) additional names, which Report was
duly forwarded to the Superintendent of Public Printing as a
portion of the Annual Report of the Virginia State Library; and
WHEREAS, the Library Board has been at much expense in
compiling and preparing the said supplemental Report; and
WHEREAS, the status of Virginia's contribution to the Rev-
olution cannot be properly rated or evaluated imtil we have
complete information upon the subject, — and that in an easily
available form;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED,—
FIRST— That the said Society, — appreciating the great
value of this new and heretofore unavailable data and its ab-
solute necessity in any just interpretation of the State's par-
ticipation in the American Revolution, — does hereby respect-
fully request His Excellency the Governor of Virginia, to take
such steps as may be necessary to have this supplemental Re-
port printed in full, and thus preserve this important and not
otherwise available link in the history of the State of Virginia;
SECOND — That copies of these resolutions be sent to the
members of the Library Board and to the members of the Gen-
eral Assembly from the City of Richmond, and that copies be
given to the press, — all of whom are requested to co-operate
with the Virginia Historical Society to the end that the said
Report be printed in full ; and
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THIRD — That a copy of these resolutions be sent to his
Excellency, the Governor, with the request that he do give them
his earnest consideration, and that he do take such steps as may
be necessary in the premises.
The next business was the election of officers and members of
the Board.
On motion a nominating committee was appointed. The
President appointed Messrs. J. H. Eckenrode and M. P. Robin-
son members of a Nominating Committee. They retired and on
returning recommended the re-election of all the officers and
members of the Board as follows;
President — W. Gordon McCabe.
Vice-Presidents, — Archer Anderson, Edward V. Valentine
and Lyon G. Tyler.
Corresponding Secretary and Librarian, — ^William G. Stanard.
Recording Secretary, — David C. Richardson.
Treasurer, — Robert A. Lancaster, Jr.
Executive Committee,— C. V. Meredith, C. W. Kent, W.
Meade Clark, A. C. Gordon, S. S. P. Patteson, S. H. Yonge,
William H. Pahner, Rt. Rev. A. M. Randolph, John Stewart
Bryan, Daniel Grinnan, J. P. McGuire, Jr., and William A.
Anderson.
There being no further business, on motion, the meeting ad-
journed.
THE
Virginia Magazine
OF
HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.
Vol. XXI. APRIL, 1913. No. 2
THE RANDOLPH MANUSCRIPT.
Virginia Seventeenth Century Records.
From the Original in the Collection of the Virginia Historical
Society
Commission and Instruction to the Eari of Orkney for the Gov-
ernment of Virginia.
(Continued)
20. And it having been further represented th&,t a Duty to
be raised upon Liquors Imported into our said Colony would
be the most easy Means that can be found out for the better
Support of that Government, You are therefore to recommend
to the Assembly the raising of such Impost & continuance of
the same, which you shall Permit them to Appropriate in such
Manner that it be apply 'd to the Uses of the Government and
to None Other whatsoever.
114 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE
21. You are to take Care that in all Acts or Orders to be
Pass'd within that our Colony in any Case for Levying Money
or Imposing fines & Penalties express mention be made that the
Same is Granted or reserv'd to Us Our Heirs and Successors for
the Publick Uses of that Our Colony, and the Support of the
Government thereof, as by the said Act or Order Shall be di-
rected.
22. Whereas we have been inform 'd that during the late
War Intelligence has been had in France of the State of our
Plantations by letters from private Persons to their Corres-
pondents in great Britain taken on board Ships coming from
the Plantations and carry'd into France which may be of Dan-
gerous consequence OUR WILL & PLEASURE is that
you Signify to all Merchants Planters and Others that they be
very Cautious in time of War whenever that shall happen in
giving any Accoimt by Letters of the Publick State and Condi-
tion of our Colony & Dominion of Virginia, and You are further
to give directions to all Masters of Ships or Other Persons to
whom you may Intrust your Letters that they put Such Letters
into a Bagg, with Sxifficient Weight to Sink the Same immedia-
diately in Case of Iminent Danger from the Enemy, and you
are also to let the Merchants and Planters know how greatly
it is for their Interest that their Letters shou'd not fall into the
hands of the Enemy and therefore that they shou'd give the
like Orders to the Masters of Ships in relation to their Letters;
And you are further to advise all Masters of Ships that they do
Sink all Letters in Case of Danger in the Manner aforesaid.
23. And Whereas in the late War the Merchants and Plan-
ters in the West Indies did Correspond and Trade with the
French and Carry Intelligence to them to the great Prejudice
and Hazard of the British Plantations, You are therefore by
all Possible Methods to endeavour to hinder aU such Trade and
Correspondence with the French whose Strength in the West In-
dies gives very Just Apprehensions of the Mischiefs that may
ensue if the utmost Care be not taken to prevent them.
24. And Whereas Several Inconveniencies have Arisen to
Our Government in the Plantations by Gifts and Presents made
to our Governors by the General Assembly IT IS OUR EX-
THE RANDOLPH MANUSCRIPT. 116
PRESS WILL AND PLEASURE that neither you our Gov
emor Lieutenant Governor Commander in Chief or President
in the Coimcil of our Colony of Virginia for the time being do
give your or their Consent to the Passing any Law or Act for
any Gift or Present to be made to you or them by the Assembly
and that neither you nor they do receive any Gifts or Presents
from the Assembly or others on any Account; or in any Manner
whatsoever upon Pain of our highest displeasure and of being
recall'd from that our Government.
25. And we do further direct and require that this declara-
tion of our Royal Will and Pleasure be Communicated to the
Assembly at their first Meeting after your arrival in that Colony
and Enter'd in the Registers of our Coimcil and Assembly that
all Persons whom it may concern may govern themselves ac-
cordingly.
26. And Whereas we are Willing in the best Maimer to
provide for the Support of the Government in Virginia by Set-
ting a Part a Sufficient allowance to such as shall be our Lieu-
tenant Governor or Commander in Chief residing for the time
being within the Same OUR WILL AND PLEASURE THERE
FORE IS That when it shall happen that you shall absent
yourself from Our said Colony, one full Moiety of the Salary &
of all Perqmsites & Emoltmients whatsoever which wou'd other-
wise become due unto you shall during the time of your Absence
from the said Colony be paid and Satisfy'd unto Such Lieut.
Governor, or Commander in Chief or President of our Coimcil
who shall be resident upon the place for the time being, which
we do hereby Order and allot to him towards his Maintenance
and for the better Support of the Dignity of our Government.
27. And Whereas great Prejudice may happen to our Ser-
vice and to the security of that Colony by your Absence from
those Parts without Sufficient Cause & Especial Leave from us
for Prevention thereof You are not upon any Pretence whatso-
ever to come to Europe from your Government without having
first Obtain'd leave for so doing from us under Our Sign Manual
and Signet or by our Order in our Privy Council, Yet Neverthe-
less in Case of Sickness you may go to New York or any other
of our Neighbouring Plantations and there stay for such a Space
116 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
of time as the recovery of your Health may absolutely require.
28. You are not to Permit any Clause whatsoever to be in-
serted in any Law for Levying Money or the Value of Money
whereby the same shall not be made lyable to be accotmted for
unto Us here in Great Britain and to our Commissioners of our
Treasury or Our High Treasurer for the time being.
29. And We do particularly require and Enjoin you upon
Pain of OvLT Highest displeasure to take care that fair Books of
Accounts of all Receipts and Payments of all such Money be
dvdy kept and the truth thereof Attested upon Oath, And that
the said Book be transmitted every half Year or Oftener to our
Commissioners of our Treasury or to o\ir high Treastu-er for the
time being and to our Commission'ers for Trade and Plantations
and Duplicates thereof by the next Conveyance in which Books
shall be Specify'd every Particular Sum rais'd or dispos'd of
together with the Names of the Persons to whom any Payment
shall be made to the End we may be Satisfy'd of the Right
and due Application of the Revenues of our Said Colony.
30. You are not to Suffer any Publick money whatsoever to
be issued or Dispos'd of otherways than by Warrant under
your hand by and with the Advice of ovlt said Council, But the
Assembly may nevertheless be permitted from time to time to
View & Examine the Accoimts of Money or Value of Money
dispos'd of by Vertue of Laws made by them, which you are to
Signify unto them as there shall be Occasion.
31 . AND IT LS OUR EXPRESS WILL AND PLEASURE
that no Law for raising any Imposition on Wines and other
Strong Liquors be made to Continue for less than one whole
Year as also that all other Laws whatsoever for the good Gov-
ernment and Support of the said Colony be made Indefinite and
without Limitation of time except the Same be for a Temporary
end and which shall expire and have its full Effect within a
Certain time.
32. AND THEREFORE you Shall not Re-Enact any Law
which hath or Shall have been once Enacted there Except upon
very Urgent Ocassions, but in no Case more than once without
our Express consent.
THE RANDOLPH MANUSCRIPT. 117
33. You shall take Care that an Act Pass'd here in the Sixth
Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne for Ascer-
taining the Rates of foreign Coins in our Plantations in America
be daily observ'd and put in Execution.
34. And You are particularly not to pass any Law, or do any
Act, by Grant Settlement or Otherwise whereby our Revenue
may be lessen'd or Impair'd without our Especial leave or Com-
mand therein.
35. You shall take Care that the Members of the Assembly
be Elected only by Freeholders as being more agreeable to the
Custom of this Kingdom to which you are as near as may be to
Conform yourself.
36. You shall reduce the Salary of the Members of the As-
sembly to such a Moderate Proportion as may be no grievence to
the Cotmtry wherein Nevertheless you are to use your discre-
tion, so as no inconvenience may arise thereby.
37. Whereas an Act has been Pass'd in Virginia on 16 April
in the Year 1684 Entitled an Act for Altering the time of hold-
ing General Courts, You are to Propose to the Next Assembly
(if the Same be not already done) that a clause be added to the
said Act whereby it may be provided that the Power of Appoint-
ing Courts to be held at any time whatsoever remain in you
or the Commander in Chief of that our said Colony for the time
being.
38. You shall not remit any fines or forfeitures whatsoever
above the Stun of Ten Pounds, nor dispose of any Escheats
fines or forfeitures whatsoever until upon Signifying unto
our Commissioners of our Treasury, or Our high Treasurer
for the time being, and to oiu- Commissoners for Trade and
Plantations, the Nature of the Offence and the Occasion of such
fines forfeitures or Escheats with the Particular Sums or Value
thereof which you are to do with all Speed Until you shall have
receiv'd our Directions therein, But you may in the mean time
Suspend the Payment of the said Fines and Forfeitures.
39. You are to require the Secretary of our Said Colony or
his Deputy for the time being to furnish you with Transcripts
of all such Acts and Publick Orders as shall be made from time
118 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
to time together with a Copy of the Journals of the Council to
the end the same transmitted Unto us, and to our Commission-
ers for Trade and Plantations as above directed, which he is
duly to perform upon Pain of incurring the Forfeiture of his
Place.
40. You are also to require from the Clerk of the Assembly
or other Proper Officer Transcripts of all the Journals and other
Proceedings of the said Assembly to the end the same may in
like manner be transmitted as aforesaid.
41. You are likewise to send a list of all Officers Employ 'd
under your Government together with all Publick Charges, and
an Account of the Present Revenue with the Probability of
the Increase or Diminution of it imder every head or Article
thereof.
42. You shall not displace any of the Judges, Justices, Sher-
ifs or other Officers or Ministers within our said Colony without
good and Sufficient cause to be Signified to us and to our Com-
missioners for Trade and Plantations.
43. And to prevent Arbitrary removals of Judges and Jus-
tices of the Peace You are not to express any Limitation of
time in the Commissions which you are to Grant (with the
Advice and Consent of our said Council) to Persons fit for
those Employments nor shall you Execute by yourself or
Deputy any of the said Offices nor Suffer any Person to Ex-
ecute more Offices than One by Deputy.
44. Whereas there are Several Offices within our said Col-
ony Granted imder our Great Seal of this Kingdom and that
our Service may be very much prejudiced by reason of the ab-
sence of the Patentees and by their Appointing Deputies not
fit to Officiate in their Stead You are therefore to Inspect the
said Offices and to Enquire into the Capacity and behaviour of
the Persons now Exercising them, and to Report thereupon to
us and to our Commissioners for Trade and Plantations what
you think fit to be done or Alter'd in relation theretmto, &
you are upon the Misbehaviour of any of the said Patentees or
their Deputies to Suspend them from the Execution of their
Places till you shall have represented the whole Matter and re-
ceive our Directions therein, and in Case of the Suspension of
THE RANDOLPH MANUSCRIPT. 119
any such Officer IT IS OUR EXPRESS WILL AND PLEAS-
URE that you take Care that the Person appointed to Execute
the Place during such Suspension do give Sufficient Security to
the Person Suspended to be answerable to him for the Pro-
fits accruing during such Suspension in Case we shall think
fit to restore him to his Place again But you shall not by Colour
of any Power or Authority hereby or Otherwise Granted or
mention'd to be Granted imto you take upon you to give Grant
Dispose of any Office or Place within our said Colony which
now is or shall be Granted under the Great Seal of Great Britain
any otherwise than that you may upon the Vacancy of any such
Place or Office or Suspension of any such Officer by you as
aforesaid put in any fit Person to Officiate in the Interval till
you shall have represented the Matter imto us and to our Com-
missioners for Trade and Plantations as aforesaid, which you
are to do by the first Opportunity and till the said Office or
Place be dispos'd of by Us, Our Heirs or Successors imder the
Great Seal of Great Britain, or that our further Directions be
given therein And OUR WILL AND PLEASURE is that you
do Countenance and give all due Encouragement to all our
Patent Officers in the Enjoyment of their Legal and Accustomed
Fees, Rights, Privileges, and Emolimients according to the true
Intent and meaning of their Patents.
45. Whereas We are above all things desirous that, all Our
Subjects may enjoy their Legal Rights and Properties You are
to take Especial Care that if any Person be Committed for
any Criminal Matters imless for Treason & Felony, plainly
and Especially expressed in the Warrant of Commitment
to have free Liberty to Petition by himself or otherwise
the Chief Barron or any one of the Judges of the Common
Pleas for a Writ of Habeas Corpus, which upon such
Application shall be granted and Served on the Provost
Marshall Goaler or other Officer having the Custody of such
Prisoner, or shall be left at the Goal or Place where the Prisoner
is confin'd and the said Provost Marshall or other Officer shall
within three days after such service on the Petitioners Paying
the Fees & Charges, and giving Security that he will not escape
by the way make return of the Writ and Prisoner before the
120 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Judge who granted out the said Writ and there Certify the
true Cause of the Imprisonment, and the said Baron or
Judge shall Discharge such Prisoner taking his Recognizance
and Sureties for his Appearance at the Court where the
Offence is Cognizable, and Certifie the said Writ and Recogni-
zance into the Court tmless Such Offences appear to the said
Baron or Judge not Bailable by the Law of England.
46. And in Case the Said Baron or Judge shall refuse to
grant a Writ of Habeas Corpus on View of the Copy of Com-
mitment or upon Oath made of such Copy having been deny'd
the Prisoner or any Person requiring the Same in his behalf
or shall delay to discharge the Prisoner after the granting such
Writ the said Baron or Judge shall incur the forfeiture of his
Place.
47. You are likewise to declare our Pleasure that in Case the
Provost Marshal or other Officer shall Imprison any Person
above Twelve Hours except by a Mittimus setting forth the
Cause thereof he be removed from his said Office.
48. And upon the Application of any Person wrongfully
Committeed the Baron or Judge shall issue his Warrant to the
Provost Marshall or other Officer to bring the Prisoner before
him who shall be discharged without Bail or Paying Fees, &
the Provost Marshall or other Officer refusing Obedience to
such Warrant shall be thereupon removed, and if the said Baron
or Judge denies the Warrant he shall likewise Incur the forfeit-
ure of his Place.
49. And You shall give directions that no Prisoner being
set at large by an Habeas Corpus be recommitted for the said
Offence but by the Court where he is bound to appear and if
any Baron, Judge, Provost Marshall or other Officer contrary
hereunto shall recommit such Person so Bail'd or deliver 'd you
are to remove him from his Place, and if the Provost Marshall
or other Officer having the Custody of the Prisoner neglects to
return the Habeas Corpus or refuses a Copy of the Committ-
ment within Six hours after demand made by the Prisoner or
any other in his behalf shall likewise Incurr the forfeiture of his
Place.
THE RANDOLPH MANUSCRIPT. 121
50. And for the better Prevention of long Imprisonments
you are to appoint two Courts of Oyer & Terminer to be held
Yearly, Viz, on the Second Thursday in December and the
Second Tuesday in June, the Charge whereof to be paid by the
Publick Treasury of Our said Colony not exceeding One Hund-
red Pounds each Session.
51. You are to take Care that all Prisoners in Case of Trea-
son or Felony have free Liberty to Petition in Open Courts for
their Tryals, that they be indicted at the first Coiut of Oyer
and Terminer unless it appears upon Oath that the Witnesses
against them cou'd not be produced and that they be try'd the
Second Court or discharg'd and the Baron or Judge upon Mo-
tion made the last Day of the Sessions in Open Court is to Bail
the Prisoners, or upon the refusal of the said Baron or Judge
and Provost Marshal or Other Officer to do their respective
Duties herein they shall be remov'd from their Places.
(To be Continued.)
122 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
VIRGINIA IN 1667-1676.
(Abstracts by W. N. Sainsbury, and copies of the McDonald and
De Jarnette Papers, Virginia State Library.)
(continued)
Letter of Thomas Ludwell, June 24, 1667
Dutch fleet in Hampton Roads
[Printed in this Magazine iv, 229-236]
Thomas Ludwell to Lord Berkeley, June 24, 1667
[Printed in this Magazine iv, 236-240; but the following
postscript was not printed]
My lord the shallop taken by the Dutch mentioned in our
declaration was bound with one Galpin to Cape fere to bring
of some people from thence where they are in great distresse, to
w"*" they are reduced more by factiom then necessity if what Mr.
Vassall wrights be true, and wast and this Galpin is the cheife
promoter of that desertion of w'** I will give your honnor a fuller
acco* when I am a little more composed my lord. I have like-
wise by the Cover'"' comand sent you our proceedings in y"
cessation* and a Coppy of the lord Baltemores instnun* whereby
he makes it voyd, w*"^ our declaration ag* him w"*" the Cover'
desires you to comand Coll Moryson to deliver when time serves;
if the west country men complanye for the losse of theire shipps,
I beseech you Lord^ to consider one argument more, w'='' is,
that the Cover' issued out his order to the collectors in every
river not to cleere theire shipps till the 10'^'' June w*='' was five
dayes after theire losse, w'='' order had y*^ masters obeyed they
f-Tobacco plantation.
*-Sic.
VIRGINIA IN 1667-1676. 123
had been safe as many as belonged to this Govemm* and for
those who belonged to Maryl*^ they came at theire pleasure and
never came neer the Gover' for any orders though they saw
there was noe fort at poynt comfort in w''*' place I believe they
have confidence though there be noe gunns.
L^ Barcley of Stratton
Memoranda that the representation of the Govern ■■ & Coun-
cill following here a second time was taken away.
[Indorsed]
These-
for the Right Hono'ble John Lord Berkeley of Stratton one of
the Lords of his Ma'ties most hono'ble Privy Councell. 24
Jime 1667.
Thomas Ludwell to Lord
John Berkley.
Original O & P.
Henry Norwood to Secretary Williamson
(Copy)
Most Hon''! S^ July 17, '67.
When I wayted on you some time since to enterteyne you
w**" some discoures touching the affayeres of Virginia, you were
pleased (p'paratory to such discourse) to desire a sight of his
Ma'tyes Grant now depending in some short extract and also
the heads of a former Charter made to the Company that first
planted there.
For 3 weeks past I have beene confined to my Chamber by
a troublesome distemper w'^^to this houre will not give me leave
to kiss yo' hands w^^'both the s^ papers, and in this expectation
of paying you that respect, I have hindered M^ Ludwell to
sollicite y" on y" same acc*^ whose coment uppon each particu-
lar will much enlighten the obscurityes thereof when ere y'u
124 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
shall be pleased to admitt him to y'' audience for y* purpose,
here inclosed are the 2 papers, and I most truly remayne
¥"■ most humble and
most obedient serv*
[signed] H. Norwood.
[Indorced]
For the right Hon'ble S''. Joseph WiUiamson Principall sec-
retary of State at Whitehall
17'»' July, 1667.
Grievances of Virginia
(Copy)
According to yo*" hon" desire I have Inserted what Could
gather by Severall in Virginia what might be their grievances.
Imp 'mis
The extream and grievous taxes they ly under Continually
and yet the tobaccoes that are Raised not expended to the de-
sired end.
as First severall himdred thousand. Raised for building of
forts and yet no forts that any wayes serviceable built in the
Coimtry.
2 Several hundred thousand Raised for maintaining of
Agents in England as Major generall Smith ; Secretary Ludwell ;
& Coll Parkes and yet no businesse effected.
Sly. 2 millions of taboccoes Raised for building of forts at
the heads of the Rivers upon great mens new plantations and
settlements.
2 The great Injiiryes that is done in Courts by the Insinua-
tion of some that make advantages by the govemo'" passion,
age, or weaknesse.
3 the great sway that those of the Council bear over the
Rest of the Assembly in matter of Lawes and also in orders upon
Appeals being Commonly Appointed Chairmen in all Committ-
VIRGINIA IN 1667-1670. 125
41y the gouvem' tollerating & lycensing some to trade with
the Indians though barbarous enemyes whereby they were
furnished with powder shot and gunns, part of which some say
his Majesty sent in for the supply of Virginia.
5 and lastly, which hath been the main cause of those tumults
the not tymely suppressing the Incursions of those form'dable
savages whereby many men over Cut of and severall planta-
tions deserted.
[This paper, which is not dated, is evidently out of place and
probably belongs to 1675. — Ed.]
Charges Against Captain Lightfoot 1667
(Copy)
The Marchant of the handmaid one of the Virginia Shipps
lately Arrived Affirme That Capt'n Lightfoot Comander of
his Ma'ties Shipp y^ Elizabeth had notice a day before the 4
dutch shipps came into James River that they were upon the
Coast, and y* verry morning they did Arive, he was told they
had taken Capt. Conway who fought them Six howeres at the
mouth of y^ River yet he made light of it, and went to a Wedd-
ing with his wench y* he carried w*** him from England, all the
Officers were Likewise ashore, he further sath that Lightfoot
had taken aboard his shipp a greate quantity of tobacco at
fraight, and that his men were ashore geting more aboard when
the EHzabeth was burnt, and that y^ said Lightfoot brought to
Virginia twenty p'sons w"** Paid for their Passage, and that
several had contracted with him for Tunnage home. That had
he been aboard w'^'^ his men he might have preserved the Mer-
chant shippes, and if he had gon down to Conway as soone
as he had advise of the 4 Shippes being on the Coast these
two shippes might have tooke the Enemies.
Those men w=^ were aboard the Elizabeth ffired but one
Gunne against y* Enimy.
126 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Col. Wm'Travers to Mr Giles cale 1676
(Copy)
The Coppy of a letter from Coll: Wm. Travers to M^ Giles
Cale y« 13*»^ of May 1676.
Brother Cale S' y^ govemer is at y® falls of James River
dayly expecting y^ ennemy & wishes he could be heare w**" us,
& has writ to Coll: Goodrich & Cap* Hawkins to Rayse w*
fforse they can to destroy those barbarous Indeyans, but he
understands y* tis y^ Susquehannos y* has done us y* mischiefe
& hops y* wee will not suffer hallfe of y'm to Retume but do not
specke at all of y^ portobaccoes w^^ makes me thinke he has not
bin Rightley informed, pray God preserve & keepe us I am
Yo'' Humble servant
Will Travers
[Indorsed]
S''. this comes this post from M'
Cale Postm' in Bristoll to M'.
Gardiner for your hon^
[signed] Jos Hoch.
CoL. Papers Virginia.
The Case of Giles Bland,* 1676.
(Copy)
M^ John Bland Merch* having settled two of his Brothers
in Virginia under certaine Articles, Agreements, and Covenants,
supplied the Plantation in w'''' they were settled to the vallew
of above ten thousand pounds, Expecting proportionalle Re-
turns from them. But the two Brothers dying one of them left
a Widdowe, who writt to M"". John Bland acquainting him, that
there was a considerable Estate left and desired him to send one
over to take care thereof, and to settle matters betweene them.
And here the sayd John Bland after some tyme did send his
only sone Giles Bland whom he had bredd a merchant to take
posession and settle things on his behalfe. Giles Bland upon
VIRGINIA IN 1667-1676. 127
his Arrivall there appHes himself e to y" Best means he cotild
think of for Accomodating y« whole affaire with his Aimt in
which he found many difficulties. And comeing to the house of
Thomas Ludwell Esq"" in Company with S^ Henry Chetsly,
[Chichley] and after they had dranke plentifully there happened
a discours betweene Giles Bland and Thomas Ludwell, which
Giles Bland being in Drinke thought two severe in Relation to
his ffather; upon which Provocation, Bland told him he dealt
Basely and unworthely to cast such Aspersions upon his father
and himselfe and having both dranke of y° same Cupp and being
transported with passion, upon a father Exchange of Lan-
guadge fell to Bloes, and after Exchanged Gloves to meete at y^
Place by them apoynted y® next Morning. Bland sleeps not all
night, and Continuing hot Headed, hasted to y^ Place apoynted
where missing Ludwell, he whent and Nailed y® Glove at y^
doore where y^ Grand Assembly used to sett, writing some
words under itt. But M'' Ludwell more wisely sought his
Reparation before y^ Governor and Council where Bland was
ordered to Aske y® sayd Ludwell forgiveness, which he accord-
ingly performed to y^ satisfaction of y® Court, and the Court
was farther pleased to fine him 500 £ for his abuse done to y*
Assembly in Nayling upp Ludwells Glove at theire doore as
will appeare by the sayd order. In which there is an additionall
Clause, that the payment thereof should be suspended for y^
Space of two yeares. That y^ sayd Bland might have time to
make his humble supplications to his most sacred Majestic to
Remitt y^ same, by which favourable Clause y^ Mercie of that
Coiut Apeares, And that they intended by itt rather to deter
him from the like Rash' Actions for the tyme to come, then to
Ruin him, for what he had unadvisedly committed.
[Indorsed in pencil]
"30 May 1676"
Whitehall, May 30, 1676
Minutes of a Committee of Trade and Plantations. In ref-
erence to the Laws of Jamaica and the Act for the good govern-
ing of Christian Servants their lordships are not pleased with
128 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
the word Servitude being a mark of bondage and slavery and
think fit rather to use the word Service since these Servants
are only Apprentices for years, but very much approve of this
Regulation for governing of Servants and order that enquiry
be made whether this or the like law be in force in all other his
Maj'. as being very necessary for the prevention of spiriting
away Children.
Sara Bland's petition in behalf of her son Giles referred on 22
April the Agents of Virginia to have a copy of said Petition and
attend on Tuesday next.
(Col. Entry Bk. No. 104. pp. 124-5)
[Abstract)
Whitehall, June 8, 1676
Minutes of a Committee of Trade and Plantations. M"".
Ludwell, Secretary of Virginia, shows letter from that Colony
concerning the present disturbances there, occasioned both by
the insurrections of the neighbouring Indians and by a mutiny
of several Englishmen (Mem. he sent in this letter on the lO***
current) He is ordered to attend on Thiu-sday with the other per-
sons concerned in the petition of M" Sara Bland in behalf of
her son now in Vieginia.
(Col. Entry Bk. No. 104. p. 133.)
Answer of M'" Ludwell to Bland's Petition.
To the Right Ho'ble the Lords of the Committee for Planta-
tions.
Tho. Ludwell Sec^* of Virginia
Most humbly doth present,
That having seen a copie of a Petition presented by M''^.
Sara Bland to the Kings most Excellent Ma*y & a reference
thereupon to yom" Lop= & upon that reference Yoiir ho^ Order
for a hearing on the 6th of this instant Jtme & finding himself
more particularly concerned as being bespattered with a part of
that dirt which is thrown upon the whole government of Virginia
by the said Mris Bland, he doth most humbly beg your
honours leave & patience in receiving this his answer to the said
Petition.
VIRGINIA IN 1667-1676. 129
To the first part he answereth, that he believeth that M''.
John Bland did adventtire great sums of money into that
Cotmtry but is confident that if his brothers Edward and Theo-
dores Books could be produced it would appear that not a fifth
part of the sum mentioned in the Petition was laid out in Plan-
tations or other estate there and consequently not to be possest
by his son Giles.
In the next place where it is alleged that the said Giles
applyed himself to the respondent, it is utterly imtrue for his
application was to the Governor & Council by a Petition, for a
Confirmation of a Deed, passed by Edward Bland Jimior, to
the above said M'' John Bland for all those lands taken up or
purchased by his father Edward brother of the said John and
consequently vested in him as heir to his father. Upon the read-
ing of which Petition the respondent as a member of the court
told the said Giles Bland that there was a Law in the Country
intitled, An Act for prevention of fraudulent conveyances which
did provide that no conveyance should be valid in Law that
was not acknowledged in Court by the Conveyor & therefore
he must bring the yoimg man into the Court to acknowledge
his deed according to the said law. And this was that w''''
gives the color to what is said of the respondents telling the said
Giles that his father had sent in forged writings to cheat the
widow with whom he had no difference whilst the respond*
was in the Country. Nor could it be possible that the respon-
dent (who hath ever had a very good opinion of M'' John Bland)
could affirm any such ill thing of him. Since at that time, nor
even to this day, he never saw one paper that concerned the
said widow or the young Edward. For what is said of Giles
Bland coming to the Respond*" house and being heated with
Wine & brandy It is confest that the respondent coming home
found S"" Henry Chicheley & the said Bland there who unknown
to him came there to shelter themselves from the approaching
night. But for the drink mentioned though they had of each
yet he doth affirm that it was not in any quantity which might
heat either party nor had the said Bland the least occasion
given him of offence but fell upon the respond* in most rude &
unsufferable language for no other cause but reproving him
130 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
when he spoke ill of the Council. And this the respondant can
with truth affirm & if it should be inquired into, he doubts not
but it would appear that (with all who know him he hath ever
passed under a better character than that of being a Drunkard
or forcing others to be so. But the Petitioner takes the old but
ill course of helping a bad cause with ill language.
As to the pretended Challenge as the Respond* knew better
what was becoming the place he exercised than to give or ac-
cept a challenge from any man so he doth in the presence of God
affirm that there was nothing like it on his part passed between
them. But the said Bland going the next morning from the
respondents house before he was risen took away one of his
Gloves carrys it to the Gov""' where he stayed all that day being
Sunday and time enough to allay the heat of the wine (if he had
any such) and that night carrys it to the town & there fixes it
up at the Assembly door with the words under it mentioned in
the order. And whereas it is affirmed in the Petition that the
Burgesses by the Contrivance of the respondent complained of
the same, he doth affirm that he came not into the town before
the Monday following nor knew anything of his Glove being so
unworthily fixed till many of the Burgesses told him of it and
exprest their resentment of the affront done them. And he doth
likewise affirm in the presence of God that he never applyed him-
self either to the Burgesses or to the Governor and Council in the
case till it was so public that the said Bland was ordered to answer
& the respondent to complain at the next General Court where
S"" Henry Chicheley (who was present at the respondents house
when he received the affront) was one of the Judges that con-
demned him in what the Order says And the said Bland, asking
the respond* forgiveness in Court (though so proudly as the
whole Court took notice of it) the respond* had no further
difference with him. But for his affront to the Assembly he
was fined five hundred pounds, which the respondent hopes
will not appear so extraordinary when the natiu-e of his offence
is duly considered by your Honors.
As to the affirmation that the respond* drew the Order him-
self he denies it but withal confesseth that as his Vindication
from so great an affront was therein to be left upon record, he
VIRGINIA IN 1667-1676. 131
did look that it was drawn according to the judgement of the
court & so did the Governor since it was an extraord" case.
And this the respondent doth confidently affirm that there is
nothing in the order which is penal but what was so adjudged
by the Court.
And whereas, it is affirmed that the s"^ Bland was denyed a
trial by a Jury, it is a great scandal to the Justice of that Court
who never denied it to any man that demanded it nor would
to him & therefore it is a mighty injury to the Court to affirm
that they proceeded arbitrarily violently and injuriously. To
which charge the Respondent doth most humbly pray that the
Court may have time to answer. And if it shall appear that
they are wronged that they may have reparation according to
the nature of the offence. But the affront done the respon-
dent by M'' Bland is no extraordinary matter since he finds M'
Bland hath not been contented with so small a matter as abus-
ing the Secretary in his own house but hath since affronted the
Governor upon the Seat of Justice in open Court to that degree
as he was forced to descend and ask Justice from the Council
and being punished for it is the groimd of all the complaint in
the latter part of the prayer of his Mothers Petition.
Thus may it please your honors the Respond* hath very truly-
stated the case to which he will be deposed for as much as con-
cerns himself & leaves it with all humility to your Lop^ consid-
eration what security will be left to any Government if the
Officers shall be left to such outrages and to determine therein
as shall seem most agreeable to Your Justice and Judgement
Which is all that can at present be answered to the said peti-
tion by
Right Hon'ble
Your Honours most
humble servant
Tho: Ludwell
teste W. Davis.
132 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Several other Papers presented by M"" Ludwell are read viz*.
Act of the grand At a grand Assembly holden at
Assembly against James City the 2P* day of September
Bland. 1674.
The Affront offered to this grand Assembly in the person of
M^ Secretary by Giles Bland during this session is highly re-
sented by the House of Burgesses.
And forasmuch as the said Bland is not in Town & the Session
near upon closing before he can be sent for This House there-
fore do request the right Honou'ble the Governor to issue forth
his mandate for the appearance of the said Giles Bland be-
fore his Honour and the Council of State at the next General
Court in order to a Vindication of the grand Assembly.
Cop. vera Test. James Minge. CI. Assem.
At a General Court held at James City the 21'* day of Nov-
ember 1674.
Present
S"". Wm. Berkeley Knight Governor &c S'. Hen: Chicheley
Knt. L*. Col. Daniel Parke Col Nath Bacon, Tho. Ballard
Esq^ Col. Jas. Bridger
Order of the Gov'' Whereas Thomas Ludwell Secretary
& Gn'l Court for of State of this Colony of Virginia did
fining Bland. at the last Session of the Grand As-
sembly complain that going from the
Assembly to his own house on Saturday 3""*^ of Ocf and finding
there S^ Hen ; Chicheley knight & M ^Giles Bland was by the said
Bland most barbourously & contrary to the Laws of Hospitality
and human Society abused and called pittiful fellow, puppy,
& son of a whore, without any other provocation than giving
his opinion as one of the Council upon a Petition preferred by
the said Bland two or three days before to the Gov'' and Council
& reproving him for speaking scandalously of the Council. And
Whereas the said Secretary did further complain that the said
VIRGINIA IN 1667-1676. 133
Bland taking one of his Gloves without his Knowledge or consent
did ignominiously and presumptuously and unworthily nail the
same up at the State House door with a most false and scanda-
lous libel which contained these words that the owner of that
Glove was a son of a whore mechanic fellow, puppy and a cow-
ard. Which barbarous behavior the whole Assembly resent-
ing as a public afifront as well because the said Sec^ was a
public Minister as for that the said Bland had dared to fix his
glove & the aforesaid libel at their gates on a Sunday and during
their Session did by an address from the Burgesses to the Gov-
ernor & Council desire that the said Bland might be compelled
to appear at the next General Court there to answer the com-
plaint of the said Sec^y on the behalf of himself & the said As-
sembly And he being accordingly ordered to appear before this
Court on the fifth day being the 20*'' of this instant November
where all the aforementioned barbarous & insolent behavior
being by full & clear evidence proved And the Said Bland hav-
ing nothing material to say in his defence but rather adding to
his former crimes by braving the Court itself. It is therefore
Ordered that the said Bland do immediately acknowledge the
horrid Injuries he hath done the Said Secretary & ask him Pub-
lic forgiveness in Court for the same which he did but in so
slight and scornful a manner as rather shewed a further con-
tempt of the said Secretary and the whole Court than a sub-
mission to their order, that he gave present and sufficient
security for his good behavior for the future, And that he pay
to the public as a Fine for his contempt of its Authority Five
Hundred Pounds, Sterling and forthwith give good security for
the payment of the same within two years after the date of this
Order.
Which is to be paid accordingly unless within that time he
can get the said Fine remitted by an Order from His Ma'ty &
the Lords of his most Hono'ble Privy Council.
Vera Copia.
Wm. Berkeley
134 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Report Touching Bland
Whereupon, their Lo'ps after long debate agree to report unto
His Ma*'^ that a copy of Mris Blands Petition be transmitted
to the Governor & Council in Virginia that they may return their
defence in writing or impower somebody to answer for them
for which they may be allowed six months time but that no
advantage be in the interim taken as to the forfeiture imposed
on M^ Bland.
Mem'dum On the 27*^ July following the Re:::/iX was pre-
sented unto the Committee but their Lo'ps being informed that
Mris Bland had prepared a Petition imto his Majesty whereby
she desired leave to retract those unadvised & offensive expres-
sions contained in her former Petition they think fit to expect
His Ma*'^* Ord'. thereupon before the said report be presented
in Council.
Whitehall June 15, 1676
Minutes of a Committee of Trade and Plantations in refer-
ence to Sarah Bland's petition and Ludwell's answer. It was
urged by M". Bland's Counsel that the Council [of Virginia]
could not impose fines for an affront done to another Court but
that his trial ought to have been by a jury, but their Lordships
conceived that the Council table was invested with many au-
thorities that had in all times been exercised and allov/ed of : and
that it will be hard, in so remote a place as Virginia, to support
the Govemm* if there were not an extraordinary power in the
Board for emergent occasions. Mr. Ludwell being called in,
stated that he had no authority from the Governor or Coimcil
in writing to manage this cause whereupon a Report was or-
dered to be drawn up to his Majesty — see next entry.
(Col. Entry Bk. No., 104. pp. 141-2.)
Council Chamber June 15, 1676
Report of Committee for Foreign Plantations on petition of
Sarah Bland in behalf of her son Giles that the matter has been
argued before them by Council learned on both sides but in-
VIRGINIA IN 1667-1676. 135
asmuch as said petition reflects upon the honor of the Council
of Virginia and the legality of their proceedings they should
have opportunity to make their just defence, their lordships
propose that copy of said petition be sent to Virginia with al-
lowance of six months for their answer.
(Colonial Papers. 1 p.)
Whitehall July 27, 1676
Minutes of a Committee of Trade and Plantations — On re-
port on petition of Sarah Bland pursuant to his Maj. reference
of 22<^ April last, but being informed that M" Bland had pre-
pared a petition to his Majesty whereby she desires leave to
retract those unadvised and offensive expressions contained in
her former petition It is thought fit to expect his Maj. order
thereon before said Report be presented in Coimcil.
(Col. Entry Bk. No. 104. p. 184.)
(To be Continued)
136 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
MINUTES OF THE COUNCIL AND GENERAL COURT
1622-1629.*
From the Originals in the Library of Congress.
*A11 erasures in the original are here printed in italics.
(continued)
[71.] [35.]
A note of Depts dew from George
Thorpe (20) late of Barkley deceased [or Barkley Hun-
dred]
To M"" Abraham Persy marchant as by one bill of dept ii
reduced by him in Corte dated the 18th of July 1621 [030 of To]
and payable y® first of december next foUowinge appereth
More dew to M'' Abraham Persey marchant as by one ii
bill of dept bearing date the 28*^ of July 1621 and [205 of Toba]
payable the first of December next ensuinge Appereth
^"George Thorpe, the head of the Berkeley Hundred Colony , was killed
in the Massacre of 1622. The plantation was largely made by men from
Gloucestershire, England. For Thorpe and Berkeley Hundred, see
Brown's Genesis, II, 1031; William and Mary Quarterly IX, 209, 210;
Va. Magazine of History and Biography XII, 170, and the Smith of Nibley
Papers in the Bulletin of the New York Public Library. For the house
Mr. Thorpe built for Apecancanough (referred to in the account) see
Campbell's History of Virginia, 162.
MINUTES OP COUNCIL AND GENERAL COURT. 137
Thomas Hans of y" neck of land demandeth
by specizalitie P'duced in Courte twenty five
pownd lawfull money of England
M'' The'' demandeth for 2 dewtie boy"
XV 'li strer at 18 penc a pownde
To M"- Marmaduke Reyner 175'li of Tobacco by bill 175 li
under ye hands of Gyles Carter Cap't Thorpes sarvant
To Capt Smith 30 bushell of Come
To Mr. Edward Blany 417 'li of Tobacco
To Capt. Francis West seaven barrells of Come
To Mr. David Sandys for ministers dews 35 'li Toba
To Robert fisher for 5 week woorke
about Apochanken his howse 90 'li of Tobacc
To Sr George Yardley 300'li Tobacc
400
To Mr. Buck 241 li.
[pencU 72] [ink 34]
A Courtt held the 27*'^ of December 1624
present Sr Francis Wyatt knighte & Capt Fran[cis]
West Sr George Yardley knight George Sandys
Esq"- Thretsr Doctor Pott, Capt' Smith,
Cap* Hamer.
1. The First and the fyft Articles demand of Capt
Martin Conceminge Sr George Yardley, is refered
vntill the Cominge vpp of Ensigne Savage
2. Yt is ordered y*
To the Seconde Sr George shall is to take his oathe
to the later pte of this Answere to ye second demand
wch Sr George tooke Accordingly
3. To the thirde demande, the Courte Conceaveth not
that Mr Luke Boyse Reed the Cattle by any order or warr[ant]
from Sr George and therefore yt he is not lyable
to dameages Conceminge the same
138 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
To thefowerth yf Sr George doth take his oath
y't he after y'e ships Compeny had brought together
the ships goods and had ended other ymployment Con
cerninge the same yt then he freely dismist them, and
then ymployede them not in any pticular service and
business of his owne, yt then Sr George shall
not be lyable to the fowerth demande it noe
ways apperinge by proofs yH either Sr George knew
they were of the ships Compeny hired by Capt
Martin oW y't Cap't Martyn ever required them of Sr
as is p'rtended
George, nor luhy Sr George should wrongfully have
taken them away, and made no benefit thereby
The sixt demand is referred to y^ generall Assembly
beinge An Act of a general Assembly in Sr George
Yardleys tyme
To the seaventh it is ordered y* Cap* Martyn shall
bring in his prooff of such thing as were taken
away from Cap* Sanders howse by Sr George
or any by his Apoyntment, more than himselfe
Conf esseth in his Answere
[ink folio 35] [pencil folio 73]
To the eight, ye Defendant Demande Ensigne Chaplen (21)
vppon oath doth deny yt there was any such Agreem't
as that he should receeve any such two Cattle
of Capt Sanders for Satisfaction of Cap* Martins
Dept or that Cap* Sanders made any such trade
to him nor is there any proffe brought to y* Contrary
And we Conceave the^ warrant of Sr George and the
Counsell to be iust and lawfull
^^In the Census of 1624-5 the "Muster" of Ensign Isaac Chaplaine at
Chaplaine's Choice (in the present Prince George County), included
Isaac Chaplaine who came in the Starr in 1610, his wife Mary who came
in the James in 1622, John Chaplaine, "his kinsman", aged 15 years,
who also came in the James and five servants.
MINUTES OF COUNCIL AND GENERAL COURT. 139
To the nynth Demand it appereth not to Concern
Sir George but y* Liv* Peppett (22) is lyable to make satis-
faction
to whom of right y* said peece shall belonge vnto
To ye fowerth Sr George Yardley having taken his oath
y* he knew not y* said Stallenges men were y* hired
servante of Capt John martin or y* ever Cap*
martin to his vtmost remembrance did ever request
them of him, and Capt Martin confessing y* he doth
not p'cysly remember whether ever he demanded them
of Sr George or not y" Court Conceaveth y* Sr George
as not Lyable to geue him Satisfaction for y^ said
pretended servante, Demanded of him.
The nyne and twentieth Day of December 1624
Symon Tutchine of the good Shipp Caled
the Dew retoume Did take the oath of Allegiance
before y" Gov'"nou'" and Coimsell.
[ink folio 36] [pencil folio 74]
Capt' Hamer his opynion is y* A warrant be
granted vnt to Cap* martin to receave y^ Cattle
w^ are in controversie to Comand Luke Boyse
to Deliuer ye Cattle now in his possession (being in
Controversie betweene Cap* Jo: martin and Cap* Jo
Bargaue) (Vnto Cap* John martins possession
This also is the opynion of Doctor Pott
Capt' Francis weste y" of the same opinion
^ ^Gilbert Peppett was living at Flowerdieu Hundred in 1623. He lived
later in Warwick County. His wife Alice came to the Colony in 1619.
Gilbert Peppett was a member of the popular Convention which met at
Jamestown in 1625.
140 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
The rest of the Court being y« maior p* Do
think it fitt to give A warrant to alter
the possession (the Controversie Depending)
Between Cap* martin and Cap* Bargraue
Yt is ordered y* Cap* west take an Inventorie
of Capt Crashw's goods praysed by two stifficyent honest men
and the Inventorie so taken to be sent up to James
Cyttie and pubHshed also in other places, to
the end y* who will give most may have them
Provided y* yf Cap* west will give asmuch as
any other (he to have them) ye refusall of them
Margery mutch swome and exa™ sayeth y* she beinge
at George menefries house said to same that
were then y* she thought Mrs Hamer had bottles
to sell
It is ordered y* M'' chew shall pay three hundred
waight of Tobacco to mr Lamoyne, and giue
the rent of his store, and Deliuer him six hogs
heads of Caske
Whereas it Appeereth by Symon Tutchin his oime
Confessione, And by one wrightinge, that he was
banished owt of Ireland. The said Symo Tuchin
aleageth y* the said banishment was repealed by Sr
Oliver Set Johns then Lo : Deputie of Ireland, w'=^
repeale he not p'ducing in Courte, because he
[ink 47] [pencil 83.]
John Southeme swome and Exa" saith y*
there was an absolute Bargaine between Jo :
lyghtfoote and W" Byancks According to a pap'
of indentures of lease bearing date the eighteene
dye of December 1624 w'^** Indentures were
by the said Ex 'a produced in Courte and that
there was noe daye appoynted betwene the same p'te
for the sealinge of the said Indenture, but w*'' as
much convenient speed as might be this Exa™
woold wright them
MINUTES OF COUNCIL AND GENERAL COURT. 141
Capt' Wm Tucker swome and exa" sayeth y* when
Sr George Yardley Came in to be Gou''nor y* he
told the Ancyent Planters at Kickotan y* the
land they dwelt vpon was Chosen to be the
Compenys lande, and that the Compeny wold
sent to Plant it but how soone he knew
not but bid them look fort, Pro And that
they should have valuable Considerations for
their Charges in buildinge
Randall Smallwood swome and Examd sayeth that
M' W™ Julian (23) said he had deliuered his peticione
to the Gou^^nor in the mominge that he hadd
wayted all daye, but yf he could nott be righted
heere he wold be righted in England and that
he wold waite here no longer
Yt is ordered y* Sargeant Williams shall have threescore
in full recompenc
and term pounde of tabacco toward his Charge
of building vpo* the Company s land at Kackatan
beinge his owne demande, and the Compeny
desire it should be soe
[pencil 84] [ ink 48]
And whereas Wm Julyan demandeth five hundred
waight of Tobacco damages for his house and
grounde Clered y* is ordered that vpon Monday
the 24th of this instant moneth he produce in
Coiul; his prooffs for the same in regard
the Court Concleaves it an vnreasonable demand
^ ^William Julian patented 600 acres on the Eastern Branch of Eliza-
beth River July 4, 1636. He was a Justice of Lower Norfolk 1637. In
1646, the Governor and Council released him from all his offices on ac-
count of his great age. His wife was named Sarah.
142 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Nathaniell Causey gent swome and Exam* sayeth that M"
Palmer Cominge to his house said to this ,Exa't and his
wiefe y* there was a farefull thinge falen to Mrs Jurden (24)
& beinge demanded by this Exat what it was, shee saide yt
Mrs Jurden being vppon her bed, she sawe two hands, theone
hande vppon her head theother hand vppon her Childs head
and hearde A voice w*''' Cried. Judgment, Judgment. To w''''
M' Causey said it may be that it was A dreame, now sayeth
M"
Pahner she was as broad awake as I am now.
Further tliis Ex'a sayeth y* he hath seene M'' Ferrer
kisse M" Jordan he never sawe any other
vniittinge or Suspicyous familiaritie between them
M'' Ferrer and M" Jurden, but sayeth y* hee hath [seen]
M' Ferrer kisse her.
Wheras M'' Grevill Pooly minister hath geven foorth
speech that M*" Ferrer and Mrs Jiu-den Hved Skandelously
together, beinge in Court and willed to P'duce witness
he P'duceth none, but M'' Causey, but sayeth yt he
Conceveth it Skandelous for M'' Ferrer to break
the order in Courte, wch he hath done by beinge in
ordynary dyett in M" Jurdens house and to frequent
her Compeny alone without some body else to be in place
accordinge to the order of Courte
Yt is ordered that W" Julyan shall have one hundred pownd
waight of Tobacco towarde in full recompense Towarde his
buildinge vppon y® Companys
lande at Kackatan beinge his owne demande and
the Compenys desire it should be soe.
^*Mrs. Jordan was the heroine of a noted case of pre-contract or breach
of promise. Captain Samuel Jordan, of Jordan's Journey, died late in
March 1623, leaving a young widow, Cicely, and two children. Three
or four days afterwards Rev. Greville Pooley, the minister of the parish,
consulted Captain Isaac Madison, a prominent man who was a neighbor,
in regard to a match with Mrs. Jordan. At first Madison was unwilling
to move in the matter; but finally consented. Mrs. Jordan told the
MINUTES OF COUNCIL AND GENERAL COURT. 143
Captain that she would as soon marry Mr. Pooley as any one else; but
would not marry so soon. As Mr. Brown (First Republic, 563) says,
"This was all that a man in his mind ought to have asked;" but Pooley
was impatient and went to see her himself. He reported to Captain
Madison that Mrs. Jordan had contracted herself to him and desired
Madison to go with him and be a witness to it. Madison did go and
when Mr. Pooley desired a dram, Mrs. Jordan desired her servant to
fetch it; but Pooley said he would have it of her fetching or not at all.
Then she went into a room, Madison and Pooley followed her; and when
Mr. Pooley was come to her he told her he should contract himself unto
her — and spoke these words — "I Grivell Pooley take thee Sysley, to
my wedded wife, to have & to hold till death us do part, and thereto I
plight thee my troth." Then (holding her by the hand) he spoke these
words, "I, Sysley take thee Grivell to my wedded husband, to have and
to hold 'till death do us part." But Madison says he did not hear her
say these words nor Pooley ask her if she would consent to them. Then
Mr. Pooley and Mrs. Jordan drank to each other and he kissed her and
said "I am thine and thou art mine 'till death us separate." Mrs. Jor-
dan desired that it might not be known that she had bestowed her love
so soon after her husband's death; but, though Pooley promised, he
was too elated to keep the secret. Mrs. Jordan resented this, saying
"He would have fared better if he had talked less," and immediately
engaged herself to marry William Ferrar, another suitor. Mr. Pooley
then brought the matter before the Governor and council and on June 14,
sued her for breach of promise. The case was continied to Nov. 27,
when, an account of the difficulty of deciding the question of contract
the matter was referred to the Company in England with a request that
the opinion of civil lawyers be obtained. The Governor and Council
also issued a proclamation against women engaging themselves to "two
several men at one time." The text of this proclamation is given in
Brown's First Republic pp. 564, 565. The context would imply that
it was issued in November; but an entry printed in this Magazine,
XIX, 231, shows that it was on June 22d.
Before any opinoin could be obtained from England Mr. Pooley lost
his case, not being able to prove his charges against William Ferrar,
and soon made a formal renunciation of any claim he might have to
Cicely Jordan. It is presumed that she married William Ferrar, or
Farrar (who was long a member of the Council) as he had a grand-
daughter named Cicely.
144 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
[pencil 85] [ink 49]
The Gou'nor in Councell Doe Respitt the Determininative of
the business between M' Pooly and M" Jurden till y* first
arrivall of shippe out of England, Wherein we expect
A resolution, and that in the meanetime thing to remane
in the state that they are, and y* M'' Ferrer behavinge
himselfe wthowet Skandall in the mean tyme, and y^
Courte do Conceave y* his beinge in ordinary Dyett there,
nor any familiaritie w'^'' hath been alledged, noe iuste
Cause of skandall, and y* in y^ lesse materiall poynte y*
on fuste made might may be dispenct w*^all.
[A paragraph is written here what gives more evidence in
regard to the case of the master of a vessel referred to on (p.
61) as not fit for publication.]
[reverse is ink folio 59]
[pencil 86] [ink 59]
Sargent Holland swome and Examin' sayeth that there
planted at sherley hundred for Barkley hundred Company
these men as followeth
Sergeant Gabriel! Holland Charles Partrige Bvdlman
Richarde Firmely Mr. Hamden Nicholas
William Clement Theophilus Beastone Pierse
Richarde Sheriife Thomas Peck croser
Thomas Moultone William Gilhnan
Edward Purquite Pristman
John Tayler
For whom Dewties were to be paide by Capt' Thorpe
to M' Sandys ninisterw''^ whether they were paid
or nott this Examt' knoweth nott.
MINUTES OF COUN.CIL AND GENERAL COURT. 145
A Copie of M' Grevell Pooly this release
Conceminge M"* Sysely Jiirden
I Gravell Pooly Preacher of the woorde doe for my parte
Freely and absolutely acquitt and discharge Mrs Cycelie
Jurden from aU former Contracts P'mises or Conditiones
made by her to me in the vow of maryage and Doe
binde my selfe in five hundred pownde ster never
to have any Claim Right or title to her that way In
proof thereof I have hereunto sett my hand & seal
the thurde dye of January
Subscribed sealed and del'
in the presence of Grevell Pooly Cler'
Nathaniell Causery
Richard Biggs sealed
R. B.
his marke.
[29]
The Coroners Enquest Impaneled vppon
the death of George Pope An Infant Child
December y^ xxxj*** 1624.
William Horwood, gent
Richarde Stephene, merc't
John Chew, merchant
Rober Chambly gent
Peter Stafferton gent
Nathaniell Jeffereys
James Hickmonte
Peregrine wetkins
Richard Tree
Thomas Passmoure
Daniel Lucye
Christopher Stokes
Wallgrave Marke
Nicholas Fynloe
William Mutch
Robert Poole
146 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
John Southeme swome and Examined sayeth y* one Thursday
the XXX *^ day of this instant moneth of December Cominge to
John Osboume his howse, goodwife osbotime was Calinge
her pultrye, at w*'^ tyme A younge boy named william Stokes
ye sone of Christopher Stokes cam to Jo : Osbonmes Doore
havinge A Uttle barrell in his hande, To whom goodwife
saide (Will, wher is George, the said boy answered his
is fallen into the well, whervpon goodwife Osboiime did
run to the well and brought George Pope in her Armes de[ad]
Margrett Osboume swome and examined sayeth
of December aboute the howers of three or foure of y^ Clock
in y* after noime asked this Ez'ant whether ther wer any
water in the howse, saying he was very drye, to whom
she saide noe, wher vpon he said he wold some, then
this Ezamt willed him to talce A dish w*'' him, to w"''
he answered noe he would full the rundlet, beinge A
small Rundlett of A gallon o"" ther about, and soe hee
tQoke y^ mndlett and went to the well, after w"*" w*^in
lesse then A quarter of an hower. Will stokes came
towardes the howse w*^ the same rundlett, to whom this Exant
asked where is George, y^ said will replide he is
in the well, wherevpon she run to the well and found
George pope, his body all vnder water except his
left arme by w'^'' she drew him out and Caried him
into the howse Dead, And further sayeth y* y^ father of
the said George, named also George pope, brought him
over w*^ him in the london marchant, beinge aboute [two?]
yeeres and a half past y^ child being then as his parent
said aboute two yeeres olde, and his father and mother
both livinge in y* Corporation of James Cyttie w*'' other children
And further sayeth y* she hath often sent the said
George Pope to the well to bringe water in the
said nmdlett, but never before without a Dishe
to fill y" rundlett w*'^
MINUTES OF COUNCIL AND GENERAL COURT. 147
William Stokes about five yeers old
Christopher Stokes swome and Examined sayeth that
when his sonne will Stokes his sonne beinge about
five yeers old cam home, he aske^ him how George
pope Cam into the well, the said w™ stokes his sone
said he kneled Downe on his knees to dip vp water
and soe fell, and the water beinge muddy y« said
George went to power it owt and to take vpp
Cleerer and soe fell in, and then will stokes went
& tooke vpp the Rundlett one the other side the well , and
bringest it to goodwife osboume
The charge as Geven to y** Jury
You shall trewly vppon your oathes delue'' unto this
Courte w* you shall finde vppon the Dilligent
vew of the body of the said George pope Deceased
as also vppon the Examination of witnesses and all
other circvmistances w'^'* may geve light to the truth
wether y^ said George pope Cam to his end by y"
felonious Acte of Any psone or psons or by the
Visitation of God or misadventure)
[pencil folio 69.] [ink folio 31.]
A Court held the thirde of January 1624 present
Sr Francis Wyatt Kjiight &c Sr George Yardley
Knight Doctor Pott Capt* Smith Cap* Hamer
Thomas Farley swome and examined sayeth that he was in place
when Livt Georg Harisone and Rowland loftis did Recken, at
w*** tyme this exa™ sayeth that Rowland loftis was indepted
to Livt' Harisone, but how much he knoweth not, but as he
tliinketh, loftis was indepted to Livt* Harisone twenty pownd
waight of Tobacco or therabout, And further sayeth that
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me cyone was made then A dept dewe to Christopher
best, but w'='' of them was to pay it he canot say, & sayeth
that ther was An Acquitance written betwixt them by Nich-
olas
Greenhill and entered into A booke
John Searbrooke sworne and Examined sayeth
M^ Threasurer brought over into this Cotmtry 3,t his Cost
and Charge
in the good shipp called the George, Thomas Daunsey ye
father
and John Daunsey his sonne, John Mott the father and John
Mott
the Sonne, and John Hoskins And the landes dew for them
M' Thresurer Doth make over to Mr. John Baynam
Richard Kingsmell gent and Thomas Allnut swome and Exam-
ined
sayeth y* the last vnll P'duced in Courte by Jo : Radishe
was the trew will and testament of Peter Mar [t?]en and that
M"" Kingsmell did wrighte the will himself e.
Nicholas Grenhill swome and examined sayeth that he writt
the said Acquittance betwixt Livt Harrisone & Rowlande
lofti[s]
and that it was for all Reckninge betwixt them
Yt is ordered y' Beniamine symes shall pay all the dept & be
geven by will by y^ deceased Nathaniell Hawkswoorth and
to pay to Mr. Francis bolton one of y^ legasses [legacies] two
hiindr
pownd waight Tobacco.
[70.] [32.]
Mr. Abram Persy Cape m'chant afirmith y* he paid to Sr Georg
Yardley and Mr. John Powntis for the freedomes of Nicholes
MINUTES OF COUNCIL AND GENERAL COURT 149
Bayly and Jonas Ryally five hundred pownd waight of to-
bacco
and twleve barrells of sheald Come, and y* by his booke
there is dew to him seventy pownd waight of Tobacco and
by bill bearinge date the 6th of february 1621 one
hundred pownd waight of Tobacco
It is ordered y* Nicholes Baylie and Jonas Riley shall
pay to Mr. Abram Persy either 396 pownd of tobacco
and twelve barrells of sheald Come, or thewyse
to sawe him tenn thowsand foote of boorde at
Yt is ordered y'' W™ Newman and John Army for their
Contempt in disobeying Cap* Bass his Commissio' granted
him by the Gou' nor shall pay each of them 10 pownd
ster in the best marchantable Tobacco and y* Army
for his absenc in not Cominge to Churge shall pay
his fyne accordinge to the act of y^
generall Assembly
Yt is agreede in Courte betweene Mr. John Vtie and Bryan
Caught That y^ said Bryan shall build M'' Vtie one shallop
of eighteene foote and a halfe by the keele in lenth and
six foote and a halfe for the breadth w*'' mast oars
yarde and Rudder, and Bryan to finde eleven hundred
of snayles and six score Ruff and Clench, And M'
Vtie to pay Bryan for the building of ye shallop six
score pownd waight of marchantable Tobacco and to alow
him the helpe of a boye whilst he is about the building
of that shallop and to find him dyett And Also M""
Vty is to pay Bryan sixscore pownd waight of Tobacco
for A boatt formerly builte mentioned [sic] in the Peticione
Ensigne John Vtie swome and Ex'a sayeth That he harde
Mr. John Lamoyne vsed these speeches to him [altered from
this.] exat' That
Mr. Edward Tutcliin and Symon Tutchinge his Brother
had some two or three thousand waight of Tobacco to recev
heere between them, And that Symon Tutchin had
gotten his brother's booke, but y* I will looke to that
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[ink 27] [pencil 65]
Symon Tutchine swome and Exnd sayeth y* w" G[yles?]
promised to giue this Examt full Satisfaction before his
Depture owt of Virginia for the sume of ten pou[nd]
sixteen shilings redy money, for wch the said Wm G[yles?]
gave vnto Edmund Tutchen A bill of exchang to y^
Virginia Company in England, w'=*' Company could not pay
the said bill, but y^ bill was P'tested. This exant
further sayeth y* Mr. Peter Eps P'mised him Payment
for seaven poimd of Tobacco Dew to Edmd Tutchin and
Michell Willocke P'mised payment of six potmd of T[obacco]
dew to Edmund Tutchin
This Exant' hat Reed Depte Dew to Edmd Tutchen
of the p'vost marshall twentie six pound of Tobacco
of w™ Cooke three pound And of Robert Cesner
fifteen poxmd, All w''^ Amotmted to forty fower
poimde of Tobacco.
These Deptc Receaved and to be receaved, are to
be Deliu'ed and left to be receaved by Cap* Hamer
In parte Satisfactio of Certen Covenant to be
p'formed by Edward Tutchine to Walter Davis
Deceased for the vse of John Davis
Yt is ordered y* s'' George Yardley shall pay M"""
Alice Davisone (26) term pound of Tobacco for y"
Dept of Cap* Thorpe
Bryan Caught swome and axamd sayeth that he had
m' John Gill and James Calver told this Exa°
that they gave Toby A bill to receave
one hundred pound waight of Tobacco of Cap*
Hamer
^ "Alice Davison, widow, was living at Jamestown 1624-5. As Edward
Sharpless, Secretary of the Colony, lived in her house, it is probable
that she was the widow of William Davison, late Secretary.
MINUTES OF COUNCIL AND GENERAL COURT. 151
George Payer swome and exand by Cap* Smith sayeth that
W*° Heninge, vpon his Death bedd did giue and bequeath one
hundred
waight of Tobacco and three barrells of sheald Come to Stephen
Webb w'='' Tobacco and Come was Dew from Thomas Farley by
A bond remayning in the Govemo" hands
Addam Dixsone swome and Examined by Cap* Smith sayeth
and affirmeth as much
[28] [66]
Edwarde Pithchande swome and Ex 'an sayeth that John Cooke
Cam abord the Kttell hopdeell at w''^ tyme Peter Langman was
there, and whereas Peter Langma' was adopted by John Cooke ye
said Cooke told Peter Langman y* he would not Suffer him to go
vpp before he had paid him or putt him in securitie. whervpon
Henry Watkins becam bound w*^ Peter langma' for the Dept
beinge one hundred fortie and fower pound waight of Tobacco
w*** condicon y* yi Peter Langman Did not pay the Dept within
Certen days (w'=** this Exa doth not well remember) that then
Peter langman shold searve Henry Watkins the next yeare
A Court held the tenth of January 1624
present Sr Francis Wyatt Knight &c Capt Francis
West
Sr George Yardley mr Threasurer Doctor Pott
Cap* Hamer
Yt is ordered that Susan Bush wyddow shall have y^ Gardianship
and Administration of Sarah Spence orphant her lands &
goods
puttinge in Capt Raph Hamer and Cap*' W°* Tucker to
stand bond for the trew Administration thereof And
to be trewly Accomptable for the orphantc estate w**> the
yssues and Pfittc that shall arise thereof from tyme
to tyme
152 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE
Cap* west doth heere in Court vndertake to pay the Deptc
of Capt Crashaw, he Disposinge of his goods to the best
advantage, and that vpon mondye bdnge the seventh
of february he shall bringe into ye Court the accompting
and y* in the meane tyme notice be geven that y^ Creditors
of Cap*' Crashaw bringe in ther Dept between this
and that Tyme, and such as are questionable be-
brought into the Courte
Sargeant William Barry brought over into this
Countrey at his owne Ph Coste and Charges one
man Sarvant named James Coyne in the good shipp
Caled the mary P'vidence, w=^ said servant is since
Dead.
[end of FIRST BOOK OF
ORIGINAL record]
VIRGINIA GLEANINGS IN ENGLAND. 153
VIRGINIA GLEANINGS IN ENGLAND.
Commtinicated by Mr. Lothrop Withington, 30 Little Russell
Street, W. C. London, (including "Gleanings" by Mr. H. F.
Waters, not before printed.).
Dame Elizabeth Filmer widow, late the wife of Sir Edward
Filmer of East Sutton, county Kent. Knight. Will 23 March
1635; proved 16 August 1638. Body to Church of East Sutton
aforesaid beside the body of my late husband. To poor of
Maidstone in Kent if I am dwelling there at my death 40s. To
poor of East Sutton £5. To dame Anne Filmer wife to my son
Sir Robert Filmer my jewel with diamonds and pearls. To
Elizabeth Filmer their daughter and Sara Filmer my daughter
my four ropes of pearls containing 600 in number equally be-
tween them. To Edward Filmer eldest son of my said son Sir
Robert a Portugues piece of gold and a piece of gold of King
Henry VII coinage both which were his great grandfathers. To
the two younger sons of my son Robert viz ; Robert and Samuel
40s. apiece. To Anne youngest daughter of said Sir Robert 40s.
To my daughter Mary Knatchbiill widow my boder of gold and
pearl and £10. To her daughter Marie the wife of John Vnder-
wood, gent, my agate and pearl jewel. To her two sons Ed-
ward and John Knatchbtdl 40s. each. To my daughter Kath-
erine Barham £10. To her eldest daughter Elizabeth Barham
£300 at 21 years or marriage. If she die before then said £300
to Elizabeth and Anne Filmer daughter of my son Reginald
Filmer. To Susan and Ann Barham two younger daughters
of my said daughter Katherine 40s. apiece. To my daughter
Elizabeth Falconer £10. Moreover to my aforesaid daughter
Sarah Filmer £10. To my son in law Robert Barham my
154 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE
biggest ring. To his son Thomas £10 at 24, and to each of his
other sons Edward, Robert, Charles, Richard and John 40s.
To his daughters Susan and Ann Barham 40s. each. To my
daughter in law Jane wife to my son Reginald £10. To her
daughters Elizabeth and Ann Filmer each 40s. To my said son
Sir Robert Filmer my silver warming pans. To my son John
£10. To my son Henry £10. To my son Reignold Filmer
my lease of three tenements in Knightrider Street, London.
To my son in law William Falconer Draper 40s. To my brother
John Argoll esq a gold ring. To my sister Dame Jane Fleet-
wood a piece of Queen Elizabeths' coyne. To my sister Dame
Sarah Jenkinson a like piece of gold of Queen Elizabeth's coyne. -
To Elizabeth Pierson widow 40s. To each of my manservants
10s. To Elizabeth Fryde my apprentice 40s. To my every other
maid servants 10s. Residue of my goods to my son Edward
Filmer sole executor. Published August 2, 1638. Wa: Reto-
rick, Scrivener. Dame Elizabeth Filmer willeth that her
three houses in Knighrider Street (now that her son Reginald
Filmer is deceased) shall be disposed as follows; £30 of the
first years rent to Jane late the wife of said Reginold and after
decease of testatrix to the use of her executor he paying yearly
to Elizabeth Faulkner daughter of Dame Elizabeth Filmer and
wife of Wniiam Faulkner £10. Whereas said Dame Elizabeth
had bequeathed to Elizabeth daughter of Robert Barham gentle-
man a competent porcion her will is that £50 of the said legacy
in case said Elizabeth Barham depart this life before attaining
18 years shall be equally divided between the two daughters of
said Reginald And lastly said Dame Elizabeth Filmer willeth
to Susan Barham £50 apeece (sic). Memorandum the legacy
of £50 apiece to Susan and Anne Barham were enterlyned be-
fore the signing hereof. Witnesses; R. Batchurst, Frances Bat-
churst, Edwd Batchurct, Wm. Wiseman, Thomas Walter.
Lee, 95.
[The will of Samuel Filmer, the grandson, named in the will, was
printed in this Magazine XV, 181. He was the first husband of Mary
Horsmanden, who afterwards married William Byrd of "Westover," Vir-
ginia. The son, Henry Filmer, named in the will, came to Virginia
about 1637. See this Magazine XV, 181, 182.]
REVOLUTIONARY ARMY ORDERS. 155
REVOLUTIONARY ARMY ORDERS.
For the Main Army under Washington 1778-1779.
(From the Originals in the Collection of the Virginia Histori-
cal Society.)
CONTINUED.
S. C. P.
For picquet 1
For in G^ 1
For Q'r Gd 1
D. O. Kakiate, Monday Oct'r 18th, 79.
F. O. Major Mitchel.
For Police Capt'n Long.
For the Day Adj't Robertson.
S. C. P.
For Picquet „ 1 1
For In Guard 1
For Q'r Guard 1
D. O. Kakiate, Oct'r 19th, 79.
F. O. Major Stevenson.
For Police Capt'°. Lamb.
For the Day Adj'*. Bowen.
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VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE
The Supply s from the State of Virg'a are to be Served out by
the Assistant who has the Care of them in the follow'g propor-
tion P month agreeable the Order of the Virginia Board of war
and the prices Set Oposite to Each article to be paid by the
Drawers.
Rum
Chocolate
L Sugar
B.
D'o
Tea
CoP 53^ G- a
10 2 lb at 3
3 lb at 2,8 6 lb at 1,
^a26
L* Col« 41^ "
2 —
3 —
6 —
Vi
Majors 3^ ^
2 —
3 —
6 —
Yi
Capt« 2^ -
1 —
0 —
6 —
M
Su'b 1 1-3—
1 —
0 —
6 —
M
Chap 1 1-3
1
—
6
M
Surg" 3M
2
3
6
¥1
Mate IM
1
0
6
M
Non Commission officers & privates 1 Gill Rum P Day, No
officer or Soldier to be Drawn for but those present on the
Ground And Every Officer is Drawn by their Rank he now hold in
the line and not by that he may be Intitled to, untill he Re-
ceives a Commission or appointment. Nor is he to Draw any
thing in addition to his Staff appointm*.
All Waggon masters Q M^ & Commissi as well as every other
Staff Officer Except those mentioned above are to be Totally
Excluded, unless the belong to the Line — No woman or any
other follower of the Camp to be Drawn for on any pretence
whatever.
The Store keeper is to make an Entry of the quantity of
Stores he Deliver to Each Officer and to Receive the money
upon the Deliverry the Captain or officer Commanding Each
Com^ to Receive the money from his men and make the Return
for Drawing the Gill of Rum to be Countersign by the Col'o or
Commandant of the Regm* upon which the Store keeper is to
Issue the quantity & Receive the Money of the Captain or Com-
mand*—
The Serj* Q. M. Serj* Drum & Fife Major to be Drawn for
in the Col'o or first Com'' in the Reg'
REVOLUTIONARY ARMY ORDERS. 157
The officers are to Draw a month allowance, if the have not
Vessels to hold that quantity of spirits They are to provide
them as soon as possible. The Col'o or Command'g officer of
Regm*' will furnish the Storekeeper with a List of the names &
Ranks of Each officer present by which he is to be Governed
And when officers who may now be absent, Return, he will
Certifie their names and Rank also.
As the Acts of Assembly of Virg'a as well as the Instructions
from the Board of war are Indefective with Respect to the Ar-
tillary Baylors Dragoons and the Regm* Commanded by Col'o
Gist, The Store keeper is to Deliver to the officers of those Reg*»
who are Citizens of that State 1 months allowance of the arti-
cles, now on hand And the Non Commissioned & privates to
Draw in the Same proportion as those in the Line. In the mean
time application will be made to the board of war, for their
further Instructions.
There having been a fair ballot made for the president and
Drawing those Stores, The following order is to be Observed. (1)
Baylors Dragoons 7^^ Reg* Col'o Gists Regm*
2^ Stat
5th & 11th Regm*
Artillary
gth Regt
8*^ Reg*
1«* State
let & iQth Regm*
3d & 4th D'o
and 2<* Regm*
Col'= Phebecca will Draw for those in Vrig'a Line that are in
the Corps of light Infantry the D A Gen'l will Send a Coppy of
this Order to Col'o Harrison the Command'g Officer of his Regm*
of Artillary also to Col'o Phebecca of the Light Infantry.
Head Q" West point, Oct' 12*'^ 79
Such officers of the Line whose Duty it is to act on foot in
time of an Engagm* and who are not as Yet Supplyed with
Espontoons are to use their utmost Exertions to get them. And
*This list doubtless gives the Virginia organizations immediately un-
der Washington's command at this time. Col "Phebecia" is intended
for Febiger.
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it is Expected from Command'g officers of Corps that will use
Every means in their power To furnish them with Ba^^onets —
In a word they will take Care that their Corps are in the most
perfect order for Actual Service.
D. O. Cacayett, Wednesday Oct^ 20*»» 79.
F. O. Major Lee.
B. O. Oct^ 20*^ 79.
Brigades Returns to be made Immediately of the Num'' of
Espontoons want'g
For Police Cap* Candell
For the Day Adj * Sinton
Detail the Same as Yesterday last
D. A. O. Cacayett, Oct^ 20*^ 79
A fatigue party of 1 Cap" & 1 Sub 1 Serj* and 30 are to be
immediately Imployed in making Fasheens Gabeans & Pickets
The Officer who Commands the party will apply to Capt"
Yoimg for what Bill hooks he has in the Store, And to the Q-M
of Each Brigade for what Axes that can be Spared — Capt''
Young will point out the place for Geting the wood &c. The
following Directions must be observed Viz A Gebean 4 feet
High 3}/2 feet Wide A fasheen as Long as Possible 10 Inches
thick well Bound and Cut Square at both Ends — a Picket of
Split wood of 4 feet long 3 Inches Square, this party to be
Changed Every Day, And the Cap* To Report in Writ'g Every
Evening to the Deputy Q. M. Gen'l of the number of Each kind
he has made. When Tools arrive that are sent for This party
will be Considerably increased, the Gen'l will be very much ob-
lidged to any officer in the Division who will undertake to Super-
intend and Direct this business — Any Gentleman willing to do
so will please to apply to Gen'l Woodford.
All Officers and Non Commission'd officers on Detachm*
fatigue &c are immediately on their Return to Camp to make a
Report to the Adj* General Specifing the Circumstances of the
Several Employm*'
1 Private for fatigue
REVOLUTIONARY ARMY ORDERS. 159
D. A. O. Oct' 20*'' 79. 9 oclock
In Case of an alarm The Troops will parade in front of their
Encampments and wait for Orders —
The Deputy Q. M. Gen'l will Give orders to the Waggon mas-
ters, And Every person in his Departm* To hold themselves
in the Greatest Readiness To move at the Shortest warning and
the Commanding officer of Every Corps will Give the Neces-
sary Orders to those under his Command to be Alert in Case of
an Alarm.
D. O. Cacayett Oct' 21 «* 79
Field Officer Major Merewether
For Police Captain Welsh
For to morrow Adj* Merewether
S C P
Picquet 1
InG<^.„ 1
Q'G<i _ 1
For Com'^ 1
R. O. Commanding officers of Company s are Immediately
to make Returns for Drawing the Gill of Rum agreeable to Divi-
sion Orders. The Serj* major Drum & fife major to be Drawn
for in Cap* for in Cap* Hoffers Com^.
D. O. Cacayett. Oct' 22^^ 79
F. O. Col'o Gist
For police Cap* Hoff
For the day Adj* Cary
S. C P
For picquet 1
For in G'^ 1
For Q' G^.- 1 1
For Com<^ 1
D. O. Cacayett. Oct' 23'^ 79
F. O. Col'o Nevill
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Cap* Hill (2) of the 4*'' Virg'a Reg* has been so Oblidging as to
undertake to Superintend The fatigue party that are Employed
in making fasheens &c.
The Officers who Comm'^ their partys will take their Direc-
tions from Cap* Hill and at Treat beating when the Come in
will make a Report to Cap* Hill of the quantity made During
the Day. Cap* Hill Excused from all Duty while Engaged in
this business.
As the present Mode of Issuing the State Store is found In-
convenient as well to the Troops as to the Storekeeper, The
following mode is to be aDopted, The Q.-M. of Each Regm*
are to Receive the Returns of the Different Companies and Di-
gest them Regm'l^ and Draw for the whole Reg* at one time the
Officers Excepted who are Drawn as heretofore at the End of
the month-
The Cap* will pay to the Q-M. the Siun Due from their Com-
panies to the State for the Store Rec^ Dureing the month, who
will settle and pay the same to the Storekeeper, an Officer from
the Division is to be Employed daily to stay at the Store Dur-
ing the time of Isuing, To prevent the Soldiers from Commit-
ing Disorder —
The Surgeons of Each Regm* are to Report to the Col'o Such
Sick as Stand in need of Necessarys from the Stores and the
Store keeper will Isue to such sick on the order of the Col'o Lint
a proportion of Tea, Sugar & Chocolate &c. as the Col'o Shall
think Necessary, at the same time Retaining the Liquor of
Such as are Drawn for-
^Though the regiment and rank do not correspond with Heitman's ac-
count this could, apparently, have been no other Va. officer than Thomas
Hill, who was 1st lieutenant 7th Va., Feb. 7, 1776; captain Nov. 13, 1776,
transferred to 5th Va. Sept. 14, 1778; Major July 4, 1779, resigned Feb.
12, 1781.
REVOLUTIONARY ARMY RECORDS. 161
For police Cap* Lapsley (3)
For the Day Adj* Robertson (4)
For picqit 1 1 Serj*
For in G'* 1 For picket 1
Q' G'^ For in G"^
For fat 2 Q' G'
Com'i?
Serj* Green
R. O. A Court martial whereof Cap* Hamilton is president
to set this day at 10 Clock at the presidents Tent for the Trial
of Serj* Carter Coniin'd by Lieu* Merewether for Neglect of
Duty and for Insolence on the parade.
The Commanding OflEicer is Exceedly Sorry to think that he
has any Individual under his Com'^ who could be Guilty of a
Crime of so Black a Die The Heinousness of which must be
So Stricking as to Require no Comm*
G Gibson Col'o.
D. O. Cacayett— Oct 24*'> 79
F O. Col'o Brent
Col'o Gibson is apointed field officer of this Day Vice Col'o
Nevell.
For Detachment Col'o Nevell Lieu** Col'o Dabney &. Allison,
Major Lee and Merewether.
As soon as the weather Clears up all the Waggons and Teems
in the Division are to Go Down on a Forageing party and are
to be held in Readiness Accordingly One Col'o Two Lieu* Col'
& Two Majors With a proportion of other Officers and 500 Men
are to Compose the party
John Lapsley ensign 7th Va. March 20, 1776; 2nd lieutenant, Nov.
28, 1776; wounded at Germantown, Oct. 4, 1777; 1st lieutenant April 3d
1778; transferred to 5th Va. Sept. 14, 1778; resigned May 7, 1779; Heit-
man [and here he was yet in service in October, 1779]
''James Robertson was adjutant 13th Va. October 15, 1777 to .
162 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
The Commanding officer will take his Orders from Gen'l
Muhlenberg-
For Police Cap* Boswell
For the Day Adj* Bown
S C P
For Picquet 1
For in G^ 1
For Q' G" 1
For Command. 7
10
(to be CONTINUED.)
COUNCIL PAPERS. 163
COUNCIL PAPERS 1698-1700.
(From the original volume in the Virginia State Library.)
(continued)
Proclamation by Nicholson in Regard to Trade.
Virginia ss.
To all people to whom these presents Shall come I flfrancis
Nicholson Esq'r His Majesties Leiutenant and Govenotir Gen'll
of this His Colony and Dominion of Virginia send Greeting
Know you that I the Said ffrancis Nicholson for the better
and more due Observacon of One Act of Parliament made in
the five and twentieth Yeare of the Reign of King Charles the
Second Intituled an Act for Encouragement of the Eastland
and Greeland Trades and for better Secureing the Plantacon
trade have Deputed and Impowered and doe hereby Depute
and Impower to be Collector of
all the Rates Duties and Impositions arising and groweing
due to His Majesty in in this His Maj'ts
Colony and Dominion by Vertue of the Said Act whereby he
hath power to enter into any Ship Bottom Boat or other Ves-
sell as also into any Shop House Warehouse Hostlery or other
place whatsoever to make dilligent Search into any Trunk
Chest Pack Case Truss or any other Parcell or Package what-
soever for any good's Wares or Merchandises prohibited to
be imported or exported or whereof the Customes or other
Duties have not been duly paid and the Same to Seize to His
Maj'ts use And also to put in Execucon all other lawfull Powers
164 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
and authorities for the better managing and Collecting the
Said Duties in all things proceeding as the law directs hereby-
willing and requireing all and every His Maj'ts Officers and
Ministers and all others whom it may concern to be aiding and
assisting to him in all things as becometh And I doe further
grant to the Said that he Shall enjoy
the Said Office During Pleasure or untill the Hon'ble Com-
iconers of His Maj'ts Customes Shall give further or other
Direccons therein Giveing under my hand and Seal this
Day of in the Eleventh Yeare of His
Maj'ts Reigne An'oqt Dm. 1699. A Comicon for
to be Collector of
Proclamation by Nicholson in Regard to Shipping.
Virginia ss.
To all people to whom these presents Shall come I ffrancis
Nicholson Esqr His Maj'ts Leiutenant and Govenour Gen-
erall of this His Colony and Dominion of Virginia send Greeting-
Know Yee that I the said ffrancis Nicholson by Virtue of one
Act of Parliament made in the twelfth yeare of the Reign of King
Charles the second Intituled an Act for the Encouargeing and
increasing of Shipping and Navigacon & one Act of parliam't
made in the fifteenth yeare of his s'd Maj'tys Reign Ent'd an
act for ye encouragem't of trade and one Act of Parliam't made
in the twenty second and twenty third Yeares of the Reign of
the Said King Charles Intituled an Act to prevent the planting
of Tobacco in England and regulateing the plantacon Trade And
one Act of Parliam't made in the twenty fifth Year of the
Reign of the Said King Charles Intituled an Act for the en-
couragem't of the Greenland and Eastland Trades and for
the better Secureing the plantcaon trade and One Act of Par-
liam't made in the seventh and eighth Yeares of his late Maj'ts
Reign Intituled an act for the preventing frauds and regulateing
abuses in the plantacon trade and in pursuance of the Authori-
ties by the Said Acts of Parliam't and every of them to me
COUNCIL PAPERS. 166
given have Deputed and impowered and doe hereby Depute
and Impower within the
precints or Districts of in this His Maj'ts
Colony and Dominion pursuant to the Said Acts of ParHam't
to Execute the Office and Duty of the Officer comonly called
and known by the Name of the Navall Officer with all and
singular the Rights powers and Authority's to me given thereby
According to the severall Rules Orders and Direccons therein
prescribed and also to put in execucon all other lawfull powers
and Authorities belonging to the said office in all things pro-
ceeding as the Law directs Hereby willing and requireing all
and every his Maj'ts Officers and Ministers and all others
whom it may concern to be aiding and assisting to him in all
things as becometh and I doe further grant imto the Said
that he Shall enjoy the Said Office dureing pleastire given under
my hand and Seal at James Citty the day of
in the Eleventh yeare of His Maj'ts Reign Anoq Dm 1692
A Comicon for to be Navall Officer
of
Proclamation in Regard to the Public Revenue.
Virginia ss.
To all to whom these presents Shall come I ffrancis Nicholson
Esq'r His Maj'ts Leiutenant and Govenoiu- Generall of this
His Maj'ts Colony and Dominion of Virginia send Greeting
Know Yee that I the Said ffrancis Nicholson By Vertue of
One Act of Assembly made at James Citty the Eighth day of
June 1680 Intituled an Act for raising a publick Revenue for
the better Support of the Govemm't of this His Maj'ts Colony
of Virginia And One Act of Assembly made at James Citty
the tenth day of October 1693 Intituled an Act laying an Im-
position upon Skins and ffurs for the better Support of the Col-
ledge of William and Mary in Virginia, and One Act of As-
sembly made at James Citty the twenty seaventh day of Aprill
1699, Intituled an Act for Lessening the Levy by the Poll and
166 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
laying and imposicon upon Liquors for and towards the build-
ing the Capitoll and other PubHck uses and one Act of Assem-
bly made upon the said twenty seventh Day of Aprill Intituled
an Act for Laying an Imposicon upon servants and slaves Im-
ported into this Coimtry towards the building the Capitoll by
the advice of His Maj'ts Hon'ble Councill of State for this His
Colony and Dominion have appointed deputed and Impowered
and doe hereby appoint Depute and impower
to be Collector and Receiver of all the Rates
Duties and Impositions ariseing and groweing Due to His
Maj'ty in this the precinct or District of
within this His Maj'ts Colony and Dominion by Virtue of
the Said- Acts of Assembly or any of them to and for the Sev-
erall uses therein menconed and directed and I doe also com-
iconate and authorise the Said to putt
in execucon all lawfull powers and authorities for the better
manageing and Collecting the Said Duties in all things pro-
ceeding as the law directs, hereby willing and requireing all
and every His Maj'ts Officers and Ministers and all others
whom it may concern to be aiding and assisting to him in all
things as becometh, and I doe further grant unto the said
that he Shall enjoy the said Office dure-
ing pleasure Given under my hand and seal at James Citty
the day of in the Eleventh Year
of His Maj'ts Reign Annoq. Dm. 1699.
A Comicon for Gent to be Collect©
of ye Virginia Duties in
The Oath of a Collector.
I : A : B : of in the Colony of Virginia doe
solemnly Swear to doe my utmost that all matters and things
contained in an Act of Parliament made in England in the
twelfth yeare of the Reign of his late Maj'ty King Charles the
Second Intituled an Act for encouraging and encreasing of
Shipping and navigacon and one other Act made in the fifteenth
COUNCIL PAPERS. 167
Yeare of the Reign of the said King Charles the second In-
tituled an act for the Encouragm't of trade and one Act of par-
liam't made in the twenty second and third yeares of the Reign
of the said King Charles the second Intitutled an act to pre-
vent the planting Tobacco in England and regnlateing the
Plantacon Trade, and one Act of Parliam't made in the twenty
fifth yeare of the Reign of the said King Charles the Second
Intituled an act for the Enconragm't of the Green land and
Eastland trades and for the better Secureing of the plantacon
trade and one Act of Parliam't made in y'e seventh and eighth
yeares of His pr'sent Maj'ts Reign Intituled an act for the
preventing frauds and regulateing abuses in the Plantation
trade and also all other Acts which have been made for the
beter regulateing and secureing the Plantacon trade so far as
y'e same are now in force Shall be punctually and bona fide
observed according to the true intent and meaning thereof
soe far as appertaines to me the Collector of the said District.
Soe help me God.
(The Oath of the Navall Officer is the same as that of the
Collector Mutatis mutandis)
The Oath of the Collector of the Virginia Duties.
I : A : B : Collector of the Virginia Duties in the Precinct of
in the Colony of Virginia doe solemnly
Swear to doe my utmost that all the matters and things con-
tained in one Act of Assembly made at James Citty the eighth
day of June 1680 intituled an act for raising apublick Revenue
for the better support of the Govemtn't of this His Maj'ts
Colony of Virginia and one Act of Assembly made at James
City the tenth day of October 1693 Intituled an Act for lay-
ing on Imposition on skins and ffurr's for the better support
of the Colledge of William and Mary in Virginia And one act
of Assembly made at James Citty the twenty Seaventh day of
Aprill 1699 Intituled an Act for Lessening the Levy by the PoU
168 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
and laying an Imposicon upon liquor's for and towards the build-
ing the Capittoll and other publick uses and one Act of Assem-
bly made at James Citty upon the said twenty seaventh day of
Aprill, Intituled an Act for laying an Imposition on Servants
and Slaves imported into this Country towards the building
the Capitoll and also all other Acts of Assembly which have
been made, and are now in force relateing to trade shall be
punctually and bona fide observed according to the true in-
tent and meaning thereof as far as appertains to me the Col-
lector of the Virginia Duties, within the District aforesaid.
Soe help me God.
Orders IN Regard to Pirates.
Whitehall, 25. September, 1697.
Sir
His Majesty having taken into Consideration how much it
concerns the good of his Subjects, and y'e security of Trade,
that all Pyrates and Sea Rovers should be supprest, who are
observed to have very much Encreased of late in their ntun-
bers and to have done great damages as well to his Majesty's
Subjects as to y'e Subjects of other princes and States in amity
with his Majesty, and there being ground to beleive, that they
have been encouraged to this boldness by the easy admittance
they have found into his Majesty es Colony es and Plantations
in America where some of them have been protected, or were
not Enquired after as ought to have been done in order to
bringing them to pimishment His Majesty has commanded
me to signify his express pleasiu-e to the respective Govemours
of the Colonyes aforesaid, that they use their utmost Diligence
and strictly enjoyne the same to all officers under their Com-
mand, that due care be taken within the limits of their severall
Jurisdictions, To Arrest, seize, and secure the Ships, Persons
and Effects of all such Pyrates and Sea Rovers as also that a
true and Exact Inventory be made of all Money Plate Jewells
Goods or other Effects whatsoever brought in by, or any way
belonging to the said Pyrates the same to be signed and attested
COUNCIL PAPERS. 10»
by proper Officers and that an account thereof, and of your
proceedings herein, be by the first oppertunity transmitted
to his Majesty by the hands of one of his Principall Secretary's
of State, to the end, that such further direccons may be sent
you as his Majesty shall think necessary; All which you are
therefore carefully to observe, and in each particular conform
yourself to his Majestyes pleasure accordingly I am
Sir
Yoiu- most himible Servant
Shrewsbury
To his Excellency Francis Nicholson Esq'r Govemour of Mary-
land or in his absence to y'e Govemotu: for y'e time being in
Maryland.
Instructions in Regard to Martial Law.
Additional Instructions for our Trusty
and wellbeloved Francis Nicholson Esq'r.
Our Lieutenant and Govemour Gen-
eral! of Our Colony and Dominion of
William R. Virginia in America. Given at our
Court at Kensington the 31st Day of
(L. S.) May 1699. In the Eleaventh Year of
our Reign.
Whereas by a Clause in your Commision for the Government
of our Colony & Dominion of Virginia, there is a power vested
in you to execute Martiall Law in time of Invasion Lisurrection
or Warr, as also upon Soldiers in Pay, which implies a Power of
Executing such Martiall Law upon Soldiers in Pay even in
time of Peace, and whereas upon consideracon of y'e present
time of Peace, We have thought fit that the foremenconed
Words, as also upon Soldiers in Pay, be omitted in the like
Commissions; Yet nevertheless it being necessary that care be
taken for the keeping of good discipline amongst the soldiers
in Pay that are now in any of our Plantacons or that we may
at any time hereafter send thither which may be provided for
170 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
by y'e Legislative power in each of our said Plantacons re-
spectively OUR WILL AND PLEASURE THEREFORE IS,
that you FORBEAR in time of Peace to put the power conferred
upon you by the foremenconed Words also upon Soldiers in
Pay, in Execution : And that you recomend unto the Generall
Assembly of our said Colony at such time as you shall find
necessary The passing of such Act for the punishing of Mutiny
Desertion and false Musters, and for the better preserving of
good dicipline amongst Soldiers in pay as may best answer
those ends.
By His Majesty's Command
Ja: Vernon.
Order in Regard to Scotch Vessels in the West Indies.
(The Darien Settlement.)
Duplicate Whitehall 2d Janry 169^-99
Sir
His Maj'ty having received Advice from y'e Island of Jamaica
that severall Ships of force fitted out in Scotland were arrived
at y'e Island of S't Thomas, (with an Intencon as they Declared)
to settle themselves in some parts' of AMERICA their design being
tmknown to his Maj'ty least y'e same should derogate from
y'e treaties his Maj'ty have entered into with y'e Crown of
Spain or be otherwise prejudiciall to any of his Maj 'ts Colon yes
in y'e west Indies: his Maj'ty Comands me to signify his Pleas-
ure to you, that you strictly enjoyn all his Maj'ts Subjects
or others inhabiting within y'e districts of your Govemm't
that they forbear holding any correspondence with, or giv-
ing any assistance to any of y'e said p'sns, while they are en-
gaged in y'e fores'd enterprize; & that no provisions, armes,
amunicon or other necessarys whatsoever be carryed to them
from thence, or be pmitted to be carryed either in their own
Vessells or other Ships or Vessells for their use; his Maj'ty
requires that you do not fail herein, but take particular care
COUNCIL PAPERS. 171
that ye above menconed direccons be duly observed, and that
you send hither an account of your proceedings in ye execucon
of these his Commands. I am
Sir
Your most humble Servant
Ja: Vernon.
Whitehall. 18th June 1699.
Sir
I signifyed to You his Maj'ts Pleasure in January last con-
cerning y'e scots who had undertaken an Expedicon to the West
Indies, the place not being then known in which they designed
to settle and his Maj'ty being since informed that they have
taken possession of y'e Bay of Caerat near y'e Bay of Darien
between Cartagena & Porto Bello and are fortifying themselves
there, seeming resolved to maintain it by force against the
Spaniards: His Maj'ty Considering this attempt as a violacon
of the Treaty's subsisting between his Maj'ty and the Crown
of Spain, Comands me to acquaint you that he expects his for-
mer orders shotild be strictly observed, a Duplicate whereof
is therefore inclosed I suppose uopn the receipt of the first
Letter You have given all necessary Directions that no Cor-
respondence should be kept with ye said Scotch Colony and
that no provisions, Ammunition or other assistance should be
fumisht them, or be suffered to be conveighed to them, from any
part of your Government, His Maj'ty would have y'e same
care continued, so as y'e said orders may in all particulars be
fully obeyed and put in execucon.
I am
Sir
Yotu- most humble Servant,
Ja: Vernon.
To
Francis Nicholson Esq'r His Maj'ts Lieutenant and Govemour
Generall of
Virginia
in
Ja: Vernon America.
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Privy Council to the Governor of Virginia.
Whitehall June the 26th 1699.
Sir
His Majesty having been pleased by some late orders in
Councill to regulate certain matters relating to his Plantations
in America, and to require us to signify his pleasure therein
to the respective Govemours of his said plantacons and do
.what may be thereupon further necessary.
You are to take notice, that his Majesty upon taking into
Consideracon the Inconveniencies arising from the Execution
of Patent places by Deputies either unqualifyed or too much
inclined by the high Rents they pay unto Patentees, to make
indirect advantages of their respective Places, has thought fit
to order that all the Patent Officers within the plantacons be
obliged by their patents or otherwise to actuall Residence upon
the place, and to execute their respective offices in their own
persons imless in case of sickness or other Incapacity. And
therefore in order to the better observacon of his Majesty s
pleasure in this particular, we think it necessary that you trans-
mit unto Us by the first opportunity a full and perfect accoimt
of all the patent offices within yotir Government with the
particular tenour and Condicon of each respective Grant and
how those conditions are complied with in the Execution of
the same: Which we shall accordingly expect.
You are also to take notice that his Majesty has been pleas'd
to Direct concerning t he Ships of War which are or may be ap-
pointed to attend any of his Plantacons that especiall care be
taken that they be good Sailors; That they be annually relieved
by others; That the Commanders thereof be strictly required
to observe the Laws of the Plantacons relating to the Departure
or Transportacon of the Inhabitants, and not to carry off any
Inhabitants from the said Plantacons contrary to the Laws
provided in each Plantacon respectively: And that they do
not leave their stations in any of the Plantacons without the
previous knowledge of the respective Govemours of the said
Plantacons and a due regard to his Maj'ts Service in those
parts. Concerning all which matters in your Govemm't, to-
COUNCIL PAPERS. 173
gether with whatever else has been formerly signifyed unto
you relating to his Maj'ts Ships of War there, We think it
likewise necessary that you give us from time to time an exact
account.
We have this to add in Particular relating to the Colony of
Virginia that the Ship ordered by his Maj'ty for the Service
there is to be of the sixth Rate.
And whereas great complaints are frequently made of the
Mischeifs committed by Pyrates in remote parts, and of the
support and encouragem't which they still find in his Maj'ts
Plantacons in America notwithstanding the repeated directions
that have been given to the respective Govern 'rs thereof to
take all possible care for the preventing of such ill practices
we cannot but thereupon mind you to use & continue your
utmost diligence in discovering, suppressing and punishing all
offenders & offences of that kind whatsoever within your Gov-
emm't; And to that intent we more particularly recomend to
your care that strict inquiry be made after the ship & men
described in the enclosed paper, and that such of them as can
be found, be punished with the utmost severity of Law and
the ship and cargo secured for those to whom they do belong.
So we bid you heartily farewell.
Yoiu" very Loving Friends
Stamford
Lexington
Ph: Meadows
John Locke
Abr: Hill
Board of Trade to the Governor of Virginia.
Whitehall June the 28^^ 1699.
Sir
We have received your Letters of the 4**' and 27*'' of Febru-
ary last with the severall Papers therein menconed, And as we
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have been alway's satisfied with the exact method of your ad-
vices, and are so with the account you have now given us of
your proceedings as well In leaving the Government of Mary-
land, as since your Entrance upon the Government of Virginia,
we desire you to continue the same punctual! advice upon all
occasions, with Assurance that we will not be wanting in any-
thing that lyes in us to second yotir Endeavours in promoting
his Majesty's Service and the Interest of the Colony Comitted
to your Charge.
There is a Clause in your Instructions relating to the repealing
of an Act past in the Generall Assembly there in 1680 about
Attorneys, which having been given in the same manner to
former Govemours, we desire you to inform us particularly how
that matter at present stands.
You will observe by a Clause in your Instructions relating
to the building of a house for your self and other successive
Govemour of that Colony to Hve in that it is thought necessary
such a house be built, and that his Maj*^ does not think fitt to
continue the former allowance of a Hundred and fifty pounds
P An. to Govemours for hous rent. Therefore we expect to hear
of your Endeavours to promote that work, and your report
thereupon according to the tenour of that Clause.
The Revisall of the laws of that Colony is also a thing esteemed
to be highly necessary towards the affecting which S'' Edmund
Andros advised us some while since of the Endeavours he had
used and of the Difficulties that occurred therein, chiefly through
a disagreement between the Councill and Assembly. Where-
fore the same thing being again recomended to your care by
your Instructions as we doubt not of your Endeavours therein
we shall be glad to hear that the prove effectuall for the accom-
plishing of so usefull a Work.
There are many other things in yoiu* Instructions somewhat
different from those which have been given to former Govemours
which have bin thought for his Maj*^ service & y'' wellfare of
that Colony And therefore tho' we doubt not of your Care in all,
yet we desire more particularly an account of your proceedings
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in those of that kind and how you find them suited to the pres-
ent state of that Colony. So we bid you heartily Farewell.
Your loving Friends.
Stamford
Lexington
Ph. Meadows
John Locke
Abr. Hill
Auditor Byrd's Account OF Import and Export Duties, 1699.
974
. 13
502
.. 06
176
.. 19
41
.. 2
9
.. 8
10
b
4
.. 7..
3^
Virg'a ss William Byrd Aud"" to his Maj*'«« 1699 Rev-
enue of Two shillings for Every H*^^ of Tobacco Exported out
of this Colony of Virg'a and 15*^ P Tun for every Ship trading
There and Sixpence p' pole for every P son imported into this
Colony for halfe a Year Ending the twenty fourth of December
inclusive
is D'
June 24 Li s d
To Ball*=* due from this Accomptant 1
to his Maj^y j
To Col'o Rich'i Lee CoU'ctr of Poto- ^
mack District his Accoimt of
Two Shillings P H'^'^ Comitted
Last Acco''
To his Acco* of port Duty's and Head
Money
To Col'o Scarburgh his Acco* of the
Eastern Shore district Two
Shillings P H''<= ._...
To his Acco* port Duty's and Head
Money _ 9
To Col'o Hill Collect' of the Upper-
District of James River his Ac-
count of Two Shillings P H''^....
To his Acco* of port Duty's and Head
Money
m
176
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Col'o Edm Jenings Collect' of Yorke
River his Acco* of Two Shill-
ings P H'^^ -
To his Accotint of port Dutyes and ^
Head Money — J
To Ralph Wormely Esq' Collect' of
Rappahanocke district his Ac-
co* of two Shillings P H'^^
To his Account of port Duty's & head \
Money j
To M' Peter Hayman Collect' of the 1
Low' dstrict of James River his >
Acco* of two Shillings P H^^*.... J
To his Acco* of port Duties and head ^
Money j
24.
73.
27
107.
27.
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Contra Creditor
By paid his Excellency for six Mon —
eths Salary Ending the Twenty-
fourth of Decemb' 1699 by or-
der of his Excellency
By paid his Excell^^ Six Moneths
House rent Ending the same
time by Order as before
By paid the Hon'ble W'" Blathwayt
Esq' his Maj*' Aud' &c a Six
moneths Salary ending the 24*''
Xb' 1699 by order before.
By paid M'- Benj'a Harrison Clke of
the CounciU six moneths Sal-
ary Ending the same time by
order as before
By paid Bartholomew ffowler Esq' his
Maj*^ Attorney Gen'll six mon-
eths Salary ending the same
time time by order as before
Li
1000.
76.
J 50.
25.
20.
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12 0
12 2
5 6
10 0
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By paid the Solicit' of Virg'a affairs six
moneths Salary ending the same
time by order as before
By paid Edward Ross Gunner of the
fort at James City six moneths
Salary ending the same time by
order as before _
By paid M'' Benj'a Harrison Gierke of
the Gouncill for y® Ministers
Last Gen '11 Court and for Mes-
sages and other Extraordinary
Charges of the Government by
order as before
By the Collectors Salary of ^1012..00
05<^ at 10 P Cent
By the Auditors Salary of ^910..16
4^ at 73^ P Cent.___
50
00 00
00 00
29.
101.
68.
•^1424.
00 9
4 01^
6 2
10 11^
So that there remains due to his Maj ^^ ''
from this Accomptant the Sume
of five hundred Sixty Two
pounds Two Shillings and nine
pence half permy to Ball 'a this
Account
562.
-9>^
^1986.
13
Memorand. The Gent of his Maj*' Hon'ble Councill were
paid their Salary's but till the 27*'^ of Aprill Last as P last ac-
count sent will appear, so that in Aprill next they will have
the whole years Salary due to them. Viz* ^350 Sterl.
178 virginia historical magazine.
Board of Trade to the Governor of Virginia
Whitehall November the 30*'^ 1699
Sir
We shall ere long give you a particular answer to your Letter
of the 1'* of July last. But in y" mean while a Letter from his
Maj*^ relating to pyrates (tho' it be not y* main thing intended
on that Subject) lying in our hands and an Opportunity offer-
ing of sending it by D' Bray who is going for Maryland and will
take care to transmit it to you by some safe Conveyance, We
would not omit to send it accordingly here inclosed. So we
bid you heartily Farewell.
Your very Loving Friends
Stanford
Ph : Meadowes
William Blathwayt
John Pollexfen
For His Maj*^ Especiall Service
For The Hon'ble Francis Nicholson Esq' Lieutenant and
Governor General of His Maj*' Colony and Dominion of Vir-
ginia in America, Or to the Commander in Chief of that Prov-
ince for the time being.
Virginia.
Proclamation in Regard to Pirates
William R.
Trusty and Welbeloved. We Greet you well
Whereas in y^ frequent Resort of Pyrates to several of our
Plantations in America it may sonetimes happen that you may
have intelligence of some of them keeping upon their Guard or
at a distance by Sea or Land either within or in the Neighbour-
hood of our Colony and Dominion of Virginia committed to
your Charge so that it may be dificult for you to seize them
either by surprize or force in such cases therefore (as opportu-
nities may offer) you are to insinuate to them by Letters, Mes-
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sengers or otherwise in the best manner You can that those who
shall be forwardest to surrender themselves and most ingenious
in their Confessions will have the surest groimds to hope for
our Mercy.
And Whereas We have been informed from Severall of Our
said plantations that divers persons committed for Pyracy have
through the Neglect or Willfull Connivance of the Goalers
escaped out of the respective Goales to which they were so
committed which is a matter of such Consequence as deserves
to be strictly looked into We do hereby will and Require you
u pon any such occassion happening within our said Colony and
Dominion of Virginia to use your utmost endeavors that the
goalers and all {other persons concern 'd or assisting in that
Crime be punished for the Same with the utmost severity of the
Law or if the Law of our said Colony and Domimion of Vir-
ginia be defective in that point that you endeavor to get some
effectuall Act past there for preventing not only the like Mis-
chief, but in General the Escape of all Prisoners for the future.
Given at Our Court at Kensington the 10*'' day of November,
1699, In the Eleventh Year of Our Reign.
By his Majesties Command.
To Oiu- Trusty and well beloved Francis Nicholson Esq' Our
Lieutenant Govemour and Comander in Cheif of Our Colony
and Dominion of Virginia in America.
And to Our Chief Govemour or Governours there for the time
being.
Proclamation in Regard to Pirates
William R.
Trusty and well Beloved wee greet you well.
Whereas we have been informed that Severall Pirates have
been lately Seized in our Plantations in America and it being
Necessary that due Care be taken for bringing them and all
others that May in Like Manner be Seized hereafter to Con-
dign Punishment wee do hereby will and require you to Send
hither in Safe Custody all Pirates who are or shall be in Prison
180 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
in ovii Collony and Dominion of Virginia under yo' Govemm*
at the time of yo' Receiving this directions and also to send the
Wittnesses and other Evidences upon which the s<^ Pirates have
been Seized and w'=^ May be of any use towards thire Convic-
tion here that Soe they May be Tryed and Ptmished According
to Law, and in the Meanwhile to take Care that the goods and
Effects of the s*^ Pirates be Secured Soe that they May here-
after be disposed of as Shall be by Law determined
And for all other Pirates that May be Seized in our s*^ CoUony
of Virg'a for the future OUR will and Pleasure is that if you
Judge by the Circumstances of any Particular Case and by the
Laws in force and disposition of the People in our Said Collony
of Virginia that such Pirates may be more Speedyly and Effec-
tually Brought to Punishm* there then by Sending them
heither, you take Care in all Such Cases that they be Tryed
thire and punished according to the Sentences that Shall be
given but if you Judge otherwise by the disposition of the people
or by defects in the Law there or other Circumstances you are
to Send them hither in Maner afores*^ And in both Cases OUR
WILL and PLEASURE is that you take such Care that thire
Goods & Effects be Secured Soe that they May be forth Come-
ing to be disposed off according as the Law shall directe and Soe
wee Bid you farewell given at o'' Court at Kinsington y^ Tenth
day of ffebruary 1699 in the Eleventh Year of o' Reign.
By his Maj*"* Comands
Vernon
To our Trusty and well Beloved ffrancis Nicholson Esq'
Lieu* and Gov' Generall of our Collony and Dominion of Vir-
ginia in America or our Comander in Chief of our Said Collony
for the time being.
Virginia.
Commission of Robert Carter and John Custis as Coun-
cillors
William R.
Trusty and well Beloved wee greet you well.
Whereas wee have Reced a good Character of the Loyalty
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Integrity and Ability of our Trusty and well Beloved Robert
Carter and John Custis Esq" wee have thought fitt hereby to
Signify our will and Pleasure to you and accordingly OUR will
and pleasure is that forthwith upon Receipt hereof you Cause the
s<* Robert Carter and John Custis to be Swome of the Councill
of o"" Collony and Dominion of Virginia and for Soe doeing this
Shalbe yo"^ warr*. AND Soe wee Bid you farewell Given at o'
Court at Kinsington the 26*'' day of December 1699 In the Elev-
enth Year of o' Reign.
By his Majesties
Command.
Jersey.
M' Nicholson Cover ■■ of Virginia.
To our Trusty and well Beloved ffrancis Nicholson Esq'
our L* and Governor and Comander In Cheif of our Colony
and Dominion of Virginia in america and to our Cheife Gov'
or Governors there for the time being.
Proclamation in Regard to huguenots
William R.
Trusty and well Beloved, wee Greet you well.
Whereas y* Marquis de La Muce Monseitir de Sailly, and
Severall other french Protestant Refugiez have by their peti-
tion htmibly Craved our Leave to Settle themselves In Norfolk
County In Virginia und'' yo"" Government and whereas wee are
graciously pleased to afford them y° s'^ Refugeiz all reasonable
Countenance and Assistance In ord'' to further and facilitate
these Settlements there accordingly Wee Do hereby Will and
Require you upon their arrivall there to give them all possible
Incouragem* by granting unto them such Tracts of Land as
usual to new Comers In y^ Province and giveing them Such
further Assistance in Settleing their famaUes and promoteing
their Endeavours In planting as may be reasonable, And So
wee bid you farewell.
182 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Given at our Court at Kensington y« 18*'' day of March 17 Vo*.
In y* Twelfth Year of our Reign.
By His Maj*y« Comand
Jersey
To y* Cover'" of Virginia.
To our Trusty and Well Beloved ffrancis Nicholson Esq' our
Lie* Cover' and Comand' In Cheif of our Colony and Dominion
of Virginia in a Merica or to Our Cheif Cov'or Gov'* there for
the time being.
Proclamation in Regard to Huguenots
Whitehall Aprill y« 12t'' 1700.
S'
His Majesty haveing been Graciously Pleased upon our himi-
ble representation, by a Letter und' his Royall Sign Manuall
to require you to give all possible Incouragem* to y® Marquis
De La Muce Monseiur De Sailly and other french protestants in
their Design to Settle in Virginia and those Gentlemen being
now about to Embark themselves wee Can Do no Less than re-
comend them to your favourable Assistance Upon their Arrivall
there In order to their Intended Settlement.
In our Letter of y* fourth of January Last wee writ you our
thoughts upon a proposall made by y^ Earle of Bellomont for
opening a new Trade w*^ some Western Indians ; and his Lord-
ship haveing since Informed us y* Some of those Indians had
Killed and Scalped five of y^ New York Indians, Called Gene-
vas, wee think it y® more necessary y* y'u use yo' Endeavours,
In Concert w**' y*' Cover' of Maryland to Settle Some trade or
Intercourse w*^^ those Indians In order for the preventing of
any Such Like Mischief for the future.
And whereas thee Earle of Bellomont has upon that Occasion
Desired us to procure his Maj*'* Leave y* he may have a meet-
ing wt^ y'u and Coll. Blackiston Philadelphia, Wee by his
Maj*'^ Ord' Signified to his Lordship and do y'' Same now to
you, y* his Maj*'* Is Pleased to approve of y^ proposed meet-
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ng and Gives Leave Accordingly that it be wherever you shall
agree amongst your Selves. So wee bid you heartily farewell.
YouT Very Loveing ffriends.
Wee Desire you to forward
y° Inclosed Letter to ffrancis
Nicholson Esq'
Stanford
Lexington
Ph: Meadows
William Blathwayt
John Pollexfen
Abr. Hill
George Stepney.
(to be continued")
184 VIRGINIA HOSTORICAL MAGAZINE.
PENSION DECLARATION OF MAJOR THOMAS MASSIE.
[Thomas Massie, son of William Massie of New Kent County,
bom August 22, 1747, is stated by Heitman to have been Captain 6th
Virginia, March 11, 1776, Major 11th Virginia, February 20th, 1778,
transferred to 2d Virginia, September 14, 1778, resigned June 25th, 1779.
About 1780 he removed from New Kent County to Frederick, and thence
about 1803, to Amherst (now Nelson) County. He married Sarah
Cocke, of "Bremo," Henrico County, and died at his residence, "Level
Green," February 2, 1834. He had three sons who have many descend-
ants. One of them was the lamented Judge Thornton L. Massie. For
an account of Major Massie's descendants see The William and Mary
Quarterly XV, 125-129. Unfortunately the first page of the copy of the
declaration, sent to this Society a number of years ago, has been lost.]
burg and the country between York and James Rivers, against
the depredations of Lord Dunmore and his myrmidons. With-
in the ensuing Fall, he received a captain's commission to re-
cruit a company of Regular soldiers to serve in the 6th Va.
Reg. of the line on continental establishment. His Company,
being recruited at the commencement of the following Spring,
he marched it to Williamsburg, and united with the said 6th
Regt., then under command of Cols. Buckner and Elliot, and
Major Hendricks. All the companies were nearly complete,
some he believes, quite so, viz., — Capt. Samuel Cabell, Lieu-
tenants Barrett and Taliaferro, and Ensign Jordan; Capt.
Ruffin, two lieutenants and ensign; Capt. Johnson, two lieu-
tenants and ensign; Capt. Hopkins, ditto; Capt. Garland, ditto;
Capt. Cocke, ditto; Capt. Oliver Towles (a celebrated lawyer)
and company officers; Capt. Gregory, ditto. He believes
Capt. Worsham, or Dun and Avery. Also himself (Capt.
Massie), Lieutenants Hockaday and Epperson, and Ensign
Armistead. The companies were raised in different and dis-
tant parts ot the state and he had not even personal acquaint-
ance with many of them, which, together with the length of time,
renders it difficult for him to remember every officer's name.
After the Regiment was equipped and armed, it marched out
and camped in the vicinity of Williamsburg where it entered
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into camp and military training; whence his regiment was
ordered to march to the North. Within the summer following
this was done imder the command of Col. Buckner, and Major
Hendricks (Lieu-Col. Elliot having withdrawn). Capt. Ruffin
died and he believes another officer, and several resigned or
or withdrew. The regiment marched through Virginia by way
of Fredericksburg and the Northern Neck, through the upper
part of Maryland into Pennsylvania by way of Lancaster, leaving
Philadelphia to the right, crossed the Delaware River above Tren-
ton, and passed through Jersey to Perth Amboy, where the regi-
ment was posted to defend that point and the country around un-
til fiirther orders. Gen. Washington at that time having the
greater part of the main American army on Long and York Is-
lands, soon after the defeat of that army on those islands, he with
his said Regiment was to march up the Sound byway of Newark.
The storm and capture of Fort Montgomery taking place, he
met with Gen. Putnam at Newark, and marched up the North
River as high as Fort Lee. The defeated army had crossed the
Hudson, except a part that had marched on the east side of
that river imder the command of Gen. Chas. Lee, He, the said
Thomas Massie, fell in the rear of those retreating troops who
had been appointed to cover their retreat and marched the up-
per road by Springfield, Scotch Plains, &c. to New Brunswick,
on the Raritan River, where the troops to which he was attached
were attacked by the British van. Having destroyed a part
of the bridge, the said American troops kept up a hot fire with
their artillery and small arms, with the British the whole day.
This checked the progress so much as to enable Gen. Washing-
ton to cross the Delaware River with the retreating army,
military stores &c. The troops to which he was attached (be-
ing unincumbered) also had the good fortune to cross the Dela-
ware without much loss. Gen. Washington having refreshed
the troops and received reinforcements recrossed the Delaware
in the night of the 24th of December (he thinks), surprised
and defeated a large body of Hessians, posted at Trenton, cap-
tured about 900 of their number, and crossed the River again
with them. Several days subsequent. Gen. Washington, hav-
ing received reinforcements, again crossed the Delaware River
with his army and took post at Princeton.
186 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
He, the said Massie, was for the two succeeding years gener-
ally employed on detached or particular service, consequently
was seldom with the said Sixth Regiment or his company,
which company was by this time much reduced. On the 1st
day of January, 1777 he marched under the command of Gen.
Scott (who headed a considerable body of troops) on or about
the Princeton road and encamped in the evening on the Heights
above Maiden-head. Soon after the van of an army under
the command of Lord Comwallis appeared, followed by the
main body, said to amount to 12,000 men, and encamped in
the place for the night. By dawn of the next day the enemy
were in motion and filed off in columns to the American left,
apparently to surroimd them. The Americans discharged two
light field pieces of artillery at them, without return, and re-
treated down the road to a creek, which they crossed over a
bridge and destroyed the same, and took possession of the
ground on the Trenton side of the creek, then covered with
large forest trees. Gen. Hard at that time, being above with
a large corps of Western Pennsylvania riflemen, the Americans
kept the enemy at bay for several hours (he believes) before he
could effect the passage of the creek with his large and heavy
artillery. The Americans retreated up and slowly along the
road to the siunmit of a hill also covered with forest trees.
Here Gen. Washington, accompanied by Gen. Green with re-
inforcements, come up. Here the Americans also skirmished
(a considerable time) with the enemy before they retreated,
and ultimately retreated to a long hill perhaps a mile to the
west end of Trenton in view of the main American Army.
Here they formed and awaited the attack of the enemy. The
day being now very far spent, the enemy appeared and ap-
proached the Americans in columns. As they were displaying
we gave them a fire in single file from right to left, and retreated
under a heavy fire of musketry and artillery, and formed tmder
the protection of the main army in Trenton. A very heavy
cannonade ensued directly between the two armies that lasted
until after dark and has been called the cannonade of Trenton.
Gen. Washington, having fortunately gained a grand point in
eluding Cornwallis' intention of bringing him into a general
MASSIE PENSION CLAIM. 187
action, made up large fires in front and left those who had been in
the van during the day to keep them up. He immediately
marched with his anny, and taking the Princeton road, reached
that place eariy the next morning, defeated Col. Mahood, who
Lord Comwallis had left there with troops to defend the place
and its stores. Gen. Washington, having taken off those stores
&c., proceeded down the road by Kingston and Somerset Court
House to Morristown, where he established posts on the Raritan
in Jersey, viz., at Perth Amboy, Bonnontown and Brunswick.
Gen. Washington also established a Hne of posts opposite to
them with a view of preventing the British garrisons from hav-
ing intercourse with and marauding the country. He, the
said Massie, was placed on this duty at Middle Post, Natuchen,
under the command of Col. Hendricks, and served on it near
five months. This duty was extremely severe by night as
well as by day, constant patrolling, frequent skirmishes, some
of them very bloody nocturnal surprises, the cutting off of
pickets etc., always attended with loss of men, and great fatigue.
The British called in their posts about the first of Jime and the
American Posts were evacuated about the middle of June. He,
with the other officers &c. who had been in this line of duty
joined the main army at Middlebrook. Sometime after, he
and five other officers were sent to Virginia with instructions.
He, on his return, joined the army under Gen. Washington at
the White Marsh Hills. Shortly after. Gen. Morgan returned
with troops from the capture of Burgo^me's army. Our army
then marched into winter quarters by way of the gulf to Valley
Forge. He was soon detailed on duty under Gen. Morgan,
who was to take post at Radnor about half way between Valley
Forge and the mouth of the Schuylkill River, with a view to
cutting off the communication of the enemy from that part of
the country which was effected. About this time (Feb. 1778)
he was promoted to the rank of Major. In the Spring he com-
manded a large guard low in the lines not far above Philadel-
phia. Here he received Lord Cathcart, Aide to Gen. Clinton,
with a fiag of truce and dispatches for Congress. Agreeably
to orders, he, Cathcart, was not permitted to proceed further.
The dispatches were read and delivered to Gen. Morgan. Im-
188 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
mediately after, Gen. Clinton evacuated Philadelphia. He
(Massie) marched imder Gen. Morgan, through the city, pro-
ceeded up and crossed the river, and united with the main
army. He with Major Gibbs was detailed to attend Gen.
Morgan, who was appointed to command the light troops etc.,
to interrupt and endeavor to retard the march of the British
army through Jersey to Sandy Hook. The first attempt to
retard their march was made at Allentown. This stopped
them a day and some prisoners were taken. The second at-
tempt was a complete surprise, from thick shrubbery in the
pines, where 16 to 18 prisoners were brought off and a few
killed with little loss to the Americans. Several other attempts
were made to alarm and retard their march which succeeded
so far as to enable Gen. Washington to march with his main
army by Englishtown and obtain a position which gave him
the power of bringing Gen. Clinton to a general engagement,
in which it is believed he would have been entirely successful
except for the flagrant disobedience of orders by Gen. Chas.
Lee, who commanded the van of the American Army. On
that, the 28th day of Jtme, 1778 (an intense hot day) Gen.
Washington ordered Gen. Lee to attack in full force. This,
the said Massie, knows to be the fact, the orders having been
communicated verbally by Gen. Washington through him,
(the said Massie) the evening before. On Gen. Lee's approach
the British army drew up in order of battle. Gen Lee ordered
a retreat which was done under a slow retreating fire for some-
time. Gen. Lee repeatedly sent orders to the officers com-
manding the several flanking corps not to advance and engage.
This state of things continued imtil Gen. Washington came
into the field himself, took the command, arrested Gen. Lee,
and renewed the battle by bringing the troops into action. The
battle at Monmouth Court House was a bloody and hard
fought action. After the sunset the British army gave way, and
it being too dark for pursuit, the American Army lay on the
field for the night, with a view to renew the battle the next
day; but the British Army in the night, made a silent and
rapid retreat, leaving their dead and wounded. Gen. Morgan,
under whose command he, the said Massie still acted, was
MASSIE PENSION CLAIM. 189
ordered to pursue the British early next morning, but they
could not be overtaken except two or three hundred stragglers
that were captured. Pursuit was continued to Middleton
Heights immediately above Sandy Hook. After being there
and thereabout for several days, the troops marched up by
Sposwood to Brunswick, bridge on the Raritan River. Here
we had a feu de joie in honor of the victory of Monmouth.
From thence he marched to King's Ferry on the Hudson river,
and crossed to the White Plains in New York. Here he re-
mained several weeks. From there, he, with several other
officers, was ordered to Rhode Island to assist Gen.
Sullivan at the siege of Newport, then in the possession of the
British. A violent storm, however, with rain, etc. for several
days having driven Coimt D'Estrey's fleet from the mouth of
the harbour out to sea, rendered it impracticable for Gen.
Sullivan to proceed with the siege; he consequently retired
from the island and the said Massie with the other officers de-
tached as above stated returned and rejoined their respective
regiments then encamped on the Hudson some distance above
West Point, and on the opposite side.
Soon after this, the stirprise and captiu-e of Baylor's newly
raised regiment of calvalry near Heroington, happened, when
he with his regiment marched under the command of Gens.
Woodford and Morgan with their troops to that neighborhood
and took post on the strong heights of Paramus. By this
time a large British force (said to amoimt to 6,000) imder the
command of Lord ComwalHs had taken the possession of the
town of Hackensack, with a view of foraging the coimtry, in
which they did not succeed to much extend, owing to the vigi-
lence of the American troops in attacking and repulsing their
foraging parties. In a few weeks the British army returned
to New York and the said Massie with his regiment tmder the
command of Col. Febiger was posted at Hackensack. Soon
after this, Col. Febiger was called off, and the said Massie was
left in the sole command of the Regiment. This was the second
Virginia Regiment on continental establishment. The officers
were. Captains Taylor, Parker, Calmes, Catlett, Stokes, Ken-
non, Gill, etc., etc., as well as recollected at the distant date
190 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
He continued there until after the middle of December, when
he with his command pursuant to orders marched into winter
quarters at Boundbrook, on the north side of Raritan River
(under the command of Gen. Lord Sterling, who commanded
that division of the army) where he continued quietly for a con-
siderable time. The British were confined to New York and
its environs and employed in arranging and strengthening their
posts of defense. Their embarcation of troops to our Southern
States and other occturences demonstrated the intention of
moving the main seat of war there, with a view to attempt
the subjugation of those states. Time progressing, it was
known that Congress had determined to defend and save
Charleston, if possible, and that the eight old Virginia Regi-
ments were doomed to that service. Those (8) Regiments
were then so much reduced in number that they were conso-
idated into (?) Regiments (March, 1780). The officers whose
commissions bore the highest rank, of course, took the com-
mand. The said Massie was of consequence a supernumerary
officer, and, with Gen. Washington's permission, returned to
Virginia, holding his commission (which he at this time has)
ready and subject to duty with other supemimierary officers
whenever called on or required.
He ranlced as Major on the 20th February, 1778, but did not
take his commission from the war office (not having leisure to
call for it) until the 20th March, 1779. His commission as
captain was literally worn and rubbed out in his pocket while
on duty from the constant exposure to rain, hail and snow day
and night. He acted alternately under the commands of
Gens. Scott, Weedon, Sullivan, Morgan, Woodford, Gen. Lord
Sterling &c., &c. He was afterwards under the command of
Gen. Nelson as Aidecamp in the winter of 1780 and 1781,
when Arnold invaded Virginia and destroyed the public stores
and houses at Richmond and Arsenal and foundry etc., etc.,
at Westdam and was finally at the siege of Yorktown,and the
surrender of that Post with the British Army, in October, 1781.
After the ratification of the treaty of peace, he received five
thousand, three hundred and thirty- three and a third acres
of land in the states of Ohio and Kentucky (the patents for
MASSIE PEBSION CLAIM. 191
which he now has) in consideration of his services as Major
aforesaid. He likewise received some three per cent and six
per cent certificates, not worth much at the time, afterwards
sold, amount not recollected. He hereby relinquishes every
claim whatever to a pension (saving and excepting his right
to half pay up to 1831, the claim to which he intends prosecut-
ing before Congress) and he declares that his name is not on the
pension roll of any Agency in any state.
(Signed) Thomas Massie, Sen'r.
Sworn and subscribed the
day and year aforesaid.
(Signed) Jno. P. Cobbs.
And the undersigned Justice of the Peace before whom the
foregoing declaration is sworn to and subscribed, doth hereby
declare it as his opinion that the above named applicant was
a Revolutionary officer, and served as he states. It is more-
over certified that the said applicant from age and bodily in-
firmity is unable to attend the Court of the County in order
to mal<:e his declaration, not having heen there (at the Court
House) for many years.
Given under my hand and seal this day and year first above
written. (Signed) Jno P. Cobbs. (Seal.)
Justice of the Peace.
State of Virginia,
Nelson County towit:
In testimony that the above John P. Cobbs, before whom
the foregoing declaration was made and sworn to, is and was
at the time of making the same a duly and lawfully commis-
sioned magistrate of the County of Nelson and the State of
Virginia, and authorized to administer oaths, take acknowledge-
ments, etc., and furthermore that his name subscribed to the
foregoing declaration appears to be his usual signature, I have
hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name,
and qualify as clerk of the County Court of Nelson in the State
of Virginia, at Lovingston, the Court House of the said County
of Nelson, this 16th day of Feb. 1833.
(Seal) Spottswood Ggxland.
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Virginia towit :
I, John Floyd, Governor of the state aforesaid, do hereby
certify and make known to all whom it may concern that
Spottswood Garland, whose name is subscribed to the armexed
certificate under the seal of the County Coxirt of Nelson, was
at the time of subscribing the same, Clerk of the said Coimty
Court of Nelson, in the State of Virginia, duly appointed and
qualified according to law. And to all his official acts as such
full faith, credit and authority are had and ought to be given.
In testimony whereof I have subscribed my name and caused
the great seal of the state to be affixed hereunto. Done at
the City of Richmond the 20th day of February in the year of
our Lord, one thousand, eight hundred and thirty-three, and of
the Commonwealth of the fifty-seventh.
(Signed) John Floyd.
(Seal)
By the Governor.
(Signed) Wm. A. Richardson,
Sec'y. Com'th.
And Keeper ot the Seal.
NOTES AND QUERIES. 193
fflSTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND
QUERIES.
BAYLOR LETTERS.
(Concluded)
From Mrs. Jane Hookham Frere of Gould Square London & Roydon in
Norfolk to Frances Norton Baylor of New-Market in Virginia.
August 2nd 1795
My dear Madam,
Though I have no particular intelligence to convey
for your amusement, the lapse of a year is such a chasm in a correspond-
ence that it must be accounted on the decline if it is not reanimated at
least once in this time: as I wish ours to be preserved, I sit down though
without a precise idea of any thing worthy your perusal to communicate
to endeavor to recollect what has occurred that you may wish to be in-
formed of. Only one circumstance of moment and that a melancholy
one has happened in our family since I wrote last viz. the death of my
Brother Sir John Fenn in 1794 which is a great loss to us all, for his ex-
cellent understanding & true friendship for us so tender & so tried we
cannot hope or expect to find in another. My sister has been in very
great dejection of mind but her health is rather better than formerly,
and her spirits are not a little recovered. She is now at Malvern Wells,
in Worcestershire where she was so kind as to take my youngest Daughter
Susan for a complaint of slight swelling in the glands of her neck — which
the use of the waters has nearly removed.
I have now only my youngest son remaining at school, the fourth
and fifth are students at Trinity Coll. Cambridge, the sixth a Lieut,
in the Royal Artillery commanded by Marquiss Comwallis.
Naming Cambridge reminds me of telling you or rather Mr. Baylor
that we visited Mr. Bond last Summer at his new built house at Wheat-
ame in which he seems most comfortably settled and had a few months
ago the satisfaction of having the title of Father added to that of hus-
band. Mr. Frere answers for his little son. I hope it will live and be
very good
The old master at Caius Coll. Cambridge is lately dead, and Mr.
Fisher who Mr. Baylor remembers, elected in his room. His name is
changed to Belnard. I mentioned to you my eldest daughter's* mar-
riage to Sir John Orde once Governor of Dominica — then capt. in the
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Navy, he has lately been promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral of the
White. Sir Robert Laurie is now a General & has lately sailed to Ger-
many to take command there & will I hope return safe with honour as
he did from a former campaign through a French sabre had nearly pre-
vented the first by a cut in the temple though regarded not.
Lady Lauriet lives still at Dover.
We have news of victory obtained by Admiral Hotham in the
Mediterranean, but as yet no particulars. We want some counterbal-
ance to the defeat of the Emigrants at Quiberon Bay.
Mr. Frere joins me in kind respects to Mr. Baylor yourself and
Family & Mr. Geo and Daniel Norton with my dear Cousin
Your very affectionate cousin
J. Frere.
Addressed to
Mrs Baylor.
*-Died in 1829 leaving issue, the present Baronet being her son
From Burke's Landed Gentry.
f-There are at New-Market several letters from Lady Laurie
who married Sir Robert Laurie of Maxwelton, head of an old and prom-
inent Scotch family.
From Charles Frere to A. G. Baylor Esq. of Petersburg Va.
No. 5 Southwick Place
Hyde Park (London)
June 28 1872
Dear Sir,
********** One of two photographs enclosed by Mr. Frere
in his letter E. B. B.) is of my nephew Douglas Frere the only son of my
eledest brother" Hatley who was a judge in India but died at an early
age as I must now consider it— that is between 50 & 60 * * * * My
nephew is on his way to the other side of your continent, he has passed
his examination for the army and while waiting for his commission is on
his travels and might possibly be induced to settle in the West. I gavg
your direction to him in case be should ever find himself near you.* * * *
The Mrs. Jane Frere whose letter you sent me was my Grand-
mother. The sixth son whom she mentions as being then a Lieut, in the
Artillery being my father James Hatley Frere.
I enclose you a certificate of the marriage of your Grand-father &
Grand-mother in 1778.
Gould Square is in the neighborhood of Crutched Friars & close
to the Tower of London.
My cousin Sir Bartle-Frere has just edited the works of my eldest
uncle John Hookham Frere, which was prefaced by a life of Mr. Hookham-
Frere which, as it mentions many members of the family it may be in-
teresting to you to read. *****
NOTES AND QUERIES. 195
The Susan Frere whose letter from Gibralta you mention was
his sister who accompanied him to Malta where he retired after his
diplomatic career was closed chiefly for the benefit of his wife Lady
Erroll's health *******
Beleive me
Yours faithfully
Charles Frere
(I see in the London Almanac for 1872, that Mr. C Frere holds
two positions one in House of Lords and one in the House of Commons)
A. G. B.
THE TOWNES FAMILY.
Abstract From an Old Manuscript that Records the History of The
Townes Family of Virginia. In possession of Miss
Claudia K. Townes of Greenville, South Carolina.
There were six Townes brothers who were Englishmen. James,
John, Thomas, Henry, William and Samuel. Of these James, Samuel
and John came over to Virginia and settled in Henrico Co.
William, youngest son of James Townes, settled in Amelia Co. on
the Appomatox River. He died in June 1774, aged 63, in possession of
21 negroes and a fine tract of land on Roanoak. He had six sons. The
eldest William, Thomas, Henry, John, Joseph and Halcut. William
settled in Cumberland Co. and served sometime during the Revolution-
ary War. He married Obedience, daughter of Samuel Allen.
Thomas enlisted in the army in his 24th year in 1776, served two
years regularly and occasionally afterwards amounting in all to five
years. The first two years under Washington and six months imder
Gates. Was engaged in the seige of Gwynns Island against Dimmore
under Lewis. Was at the seige of Norfolk when it was burned, and with
Wayne at Stony Point. Was then first Lieutenent and wounded in this
battle, and also a small skirmish at Portsmouth. He was at the seige
of York and saw Comwallis give up his sword. Returned home and
settled in Charlotte Co. but moved to South Carolina In 1793.
John enteres the army at an early age. Went to the North, was
engaged in several battles. Returned South, was taken prisoner at
Charlestown exchanged and returned to Philadelphia. Married and be-
come clerk of the board of war.
Joseph married in Halifax and died in Mecklinburg.
Halcut settled first in Halifax, moved to Danville. He married a
Coleman at the age of 25. Was a lawyer of considerable eminence but
died at the early age of 35. Was twice married.
Henry married and reared a large family. He moved to Ken-
tucky and lived to an advanced age. Henry and Halcut were both at
the battle of Guilford.
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The four sisters were Molly who married William Pride. Nancy,
married Charies Jones, Lucretia, married Frank Robinson and Elis-
abeth who married Blackman Ligon.
Samuel Allen Townes, son of William, married Rachel Stokes of
Fredericksbury, in 1799, and moved to Greenville, S. C.
Some Virginians Educated in Great Britain.
This list of natives of Virginia who attended schools or colleges in
England and Scotland prior to 1800 is certainly very incomplete; but
is as full as the sources accessible in Richmond would allow. Foster's
Alumni Oxonienses, of course, gives full information for Oxford, but when
the matriculation lists of the Cambridge Colleges, of the great schools
like Harrow and Winchester (Mr. Austen-Leigh has given much infor-
mation in regard to Eton), the London schools, the various grammar-
schools throughout England, and Scotch schools and universities (other
than the medical school at Edinburgh), and admissions to the various
Inns of Court, have been carefully examined by some properly equipped
person, there is no doubt that this list can be largely increased. In ad-
dition to these institutions many Virginia boys were certainly sent to
private schools in England, which were of note at the time, but whose
records must now be lost.
The list of names follows. The Virginia residence is given,
and at least one year, preferably the first year, of the students residence
in the school or college.
Ambler, John, Yorktown, Wakefield School, Yorkshire. Trinity
College, Cambridge, 1753.
Armistead, Henry, Gloucester Co., at school in England, (place
unknown) 1702.
Alexander, Philip, Stafford Co., Inner Temple, 1760.
Atchison, Walter, Norfolk, Middle Temple, 1771.
Bland, Theodrick, Jr., Prince George, Wakefield, 1753, Edinburgh,
1761.
Bland, Richard (d. 1776), Prince George, Edinburgh.
Beverley, Robert, Essex, Wakefield, Trinity, Cambridge, 1757.
Beverley, William, Essex, Trinity, Cambridge, 1781.
Beverley, Robert, Essex, Mr. Andrews' School at Highgate, 1784.
Beverley, John, Middlesex, at school in England, (place unknown),
about 1694.
Beverley, Robert, Middlesex, at school in England (place un-
known), about 1694.
Beverley, Harry, Middlesex, at school in England (place vinknown)
about 1694.
Blair, John, Williamsburg, Middle Temple, 1755.
NOTES AND QUERIES 197
Blair, James, Williamsburg, Edinburgh, 1761.
Baylor, John, (d. 1774), King & Queen, Putney Grammar School,
and Caius, Cambridge.
Baylor, John, (Jr.), Caroline, Putney Grammar School and Caius,
Cambridge.
Brooke, Lawrence, Spotsylvania, Edinburgh, 1776.
Brooke, Robert, Spotsylvania, Edinburgh, 1777.
Ball, William, Lancaster, Edinburgh, 1773.
Ball, Joseph, Lancaster, Grays Inn, 1720.
Ball, Henry Lee, Lancaster, Middle Temple, 1769.
Boiling, Robert, Chesterfield, Wakefield, 1756.
Boush, William, Norfolk, Edinburgh, 1778.
Byrd, William, Charles City, educated in England and Holland,
1684-1695, Middle Temple, 1690.
Bnmskill, John, Caroline, Appleby School, Pembroke, Cam-
bridge, 1752.
Burwell, James, York Co., Eton, 1760.
Burwell, Lewis, Gloucester, Eton, 1725, Caius, Cambridge, 1729.
Burwell, Lewis, Gloucester, Balliol, Oxford, 1765, Inner Temple,
1765.
1714.
Carter, George (d. 1742), Lancaster, Middle Temple.
Carter, John, Lancaster, Mile End School, Trinity, Cambridge,
Carter, John, "Cleve," King George, at school in England (place
unknown), 1764.
Carter, Landon, "Cleve," King George, at school in England
(place tmknown), 1764.
Carter, Robert, Lancaster, at school in England (place unknown)
about 1678.
Corbin, Francis, King & Queen, Inner Temple, 1777, (stated also
to have been at Canterbury School and Cambridge.)
Corbin, Gawin, King & Queen, Middle Temple 1756, Christs,
Cambridge, 1756.
Corbin, Richard Henry, King & Queen, St. Johns, Cambridge 1794.
Cary, Wilson, Elizabeth City, Trinity, Cambridge, 1721.
Clayton, Thomas, (b. 1701-1739), Gloucester, Pembroke, Cam-
bridge.
Campbell, Archibald, Westmoreland, Edinburgh, 1770.
Downman, Joseph Ball, Lancaster, Middle Temple, 1773.
Eskridge, Robert, Westmoreland, Wood End Grammar School,
(Scotland?) 1719.
Fairfax, William, Fairfax, Wakefield, about 1753.
Fauntleroy, William, Richmond Co., Middle Temple, 1760.
Fitzhugh, Henry, Staflford, Christ Church, Oxford, 1722.
Gilmer, George, Williamsburg, Edinburgh, 1761.
Grifiin, Corbin, Richmond Co., Edinburgh, 1765.
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Griffin, Cyrus, Richmond Co., Middle Temple, 1771.
Griffin, John, Augusta (?), Edinburgh, 1774.
Goodwin, Joseph, Edinburgh, 1769.
Gait, John M., Williamsburg, Edinburgh, 1770.
Grymes, Philip Ludwell, Middlesex, Eton, 1760.
Grymes, Jolin Randolph, Middlesex, Eton,, 1760.
Jones, Walter, Hanover, Edinburgh, 1769.
Kenner, Rodham, (b. 1707), Northumberland, St Bees Grammar
School.
Lee, Arthur, Westmoreland, Eton 1753, Edinburgh, Lincoln's Inn
1770, Middle Temple.
Lee, Henry, Middle Temple, 1773.
Lee, John, Westmoreland, Queens, Oxford, 1658.
Lee, George Fairfax, Westmoreland, Christs, Cambridge, 1772.
Lee Richard Henry, Westmoreland, Wakefield.
Lee, Philip Ludwell, W^estmoreland, Inner Temple.
Lee, Ludwell, Westmoreland, St. Bees, 1776.
Lee, Thomas, Westmoreland, at school in England (place unknown)
1776.
Lee, Lancelot, Westmoreland, at school in England (place un-
known) 1771.
Lee, William, Westmoreland, at school in England (place unknown)
1771.
Meade, David, Nansemond, private school at Dalston, and Har-
row 1751.
Meade, Richard Kidder, Nansemond, private school at Dalston
(and probably Harrow.)
Meade, Everard, Nansemond, private school at Dalston (and
probably Harrow.)
Mason, Thompson, Fairfax, Temple.
Munford, Robert, Mecklenburg, Wakefield about 1752.
McClurg, James, Elizabeth City, Edinburgh 1770.
Nelson, Thomas Jr., Yorkton, educated in England 1752-59 under
care of Bishop Porteus.
Nicolls, Samuel, Edinburgh 1776.
Parker, George, Northampton, at school in Bristol about 1676-79.
Power, James, King William, Wakefield, 1757.
Peyton, Valentine, Stafford, Edinburgh, 1754.
Page, Mann, Gloucester, Eton 1706, St. Johns, Oxford, 1709.
Perrott, Henry, Middlesex, Grays Inn, 1674.
Randolph, Peyton (d. 1776), Williamsburg, Middle Temple.
Randolph, (Sir) John, Henrico, Grays Inn.
Randolph, Beverley, Williamsburg, Eton, 1762.
Randolph, William, Williamsburg, Eton 1762.
Robinson, Christopher, Middlesex, Oriel, Oxford, 1721.
Robinson, Christopher, Middlesex, Oriel, Oxford, 1723.
NOTES AND QUERIES 199
Robinson, Peter, Middlesex, Oriel, Oxford, 1737.
Robinson, Middlesex, Oriel, Oxford, 1737.
Robinson, John, Middlesex, educated in England 1713 and under
care of his uncle Bishop Robinson.
Ravenscroft, John, Prince George, Edinburgh 1770.
Skipwith, Gray, Mechlenburg, Eton 1787, Trinity, Cambridge,
1790.
Spotswood, Alexander, Spotsylvania, Eton 1760.
Spotswood, John, Spotsylvania, Eton, 1760.
Scott, Gustavus, Prince Wm., Kings College, Aberdeen 1765,
Middle Temple 1767.
Scott, John, Prince Wm., King's College, Aberdeen, 1768.
Smith, Thomas, King & Queen, Trinity, Cambridge, 1759.
Steptoe, George, Westmoreland. Edinburgh, 1767.
Shore, John, Prince George, Edinburgh, 1777.
Stith, William, Charles City, Queens, Oxford, 1724.
Skinker, John, King George, Appleby 1753.
Span, John, Northumberland, Queens, Oxford, 1705.
Tayloe, John, Richmond Co., Eton 1788, St. Johns, Cambridge
1789.
1773.
Thacker, Chichley, Middlesex, Oriel, Oxford, 1724.
Tucker, St. George, Yorktown (bom in Bermuda) Inner Temple
Turberville, George Lee, Westmoreland, Winchester 1771.
Tapscott, James, Edinburgh, 1765.
Turpin, Philip, Chesterfield, Edinburgh, 1774.
Taylor, Daniel, New Kent, Trinity, Cambridge, 1724.
Washington, Augustine Sr., Westmoreland, Appleby.
Washington, Augustine Jr., Westmoreland, Appleby.
Washington, Lawrence, Westmoreland, Appleby, 1722.
Wormeley, Ralph, Middlesex, Oriel, Oxford 1665.
Wormeley, Ralph, Middlesex, Eton 1757, Trinity, Cambridge.
Wormeley, Ralph, Middlesex, at school in England (place un-
known) 1702.
Wormeley, John, Middlesex, at school in England (place unknown)
1702.
Warner, Augustine, Gloucester, Merchant Taylors, Londen, 1658.
White, Alexander, Frederick, Inner Temple, 1762.
Yates, Bartholomew, Middlesex, Brasenose, Oxford, 1695.
Yates, Bartholomew, Middlesex, Oriel, Oxford, 1732.
Yates, Robert, Middlesex, Oriel. Oxford, 1733.
A number of the persons included in this list also studied at Wm.
and Mary. The counties most numerously represented were Westmore-
land, 19, and Middlesex, 17.
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Sir John Zouch
In Volume XII, pages 87 and 88, July, 1904, you gave an abstract
of the Will, dated 30 August, 1636, and proved 4 December, 1639, of Sir
John Zouch, and in a note you made him to be the same Sir John who was
knighted at Belvoir Castle 23 April, 1603, and who in 1605 made the
agreement with Captain George Weymouth for the settlement of Virginia,
a project which was disconcerted by the grant of the Virginia Company's
Charter; and also the same (and so he was), who came to Virginia in 1634
and made a futile attempt to plant iron works at Falling Creek, below
Richmond, and was mixed up in the dissension between Governor Harvey
and his opponents in the Council. And in the same Volume, page 429,
you published a commtmication from me, in which with other matter, I
expressed a belief that the Sir John who visited Virginia in 1634 and
made the Will of 1636-9 was not the same, but the son of the Sir John
Zouch who came near, perhaps, to being the foimder of Virginia in 1605.
I have since found a confirmation of my belief in "The Berkeley
Manuscripts — Lives of the Berkeleys," by John Smyth, Steward of
Berkeley Hundred, England. Smyth, who was himself an arms bearing
gentleman, wrote his manuscript history, which is of the highest au-
thority, in and before 1624, although it was not published tmtil 1883, and
he was well acquainted with the persons and events of the period in which
he was writing. In Volume II, page 402, he gives an account of the mar-
riage of Mary, eldest daughter of his patron, Henry, Lord Berkeley, by
his 1st wife, Lady Katherine Howard (3rd daughter of the poet, Henry
Howard, Earl of Surrey,) on 14 February, 1584, to John Zouch, Esquire,
"after knight," son and heir apparent of Sir John Zouch of Codnor Castle,
Derbyshire, which Sir John — the father — "dyed shortly thereafter,"
and he states that this second Sir John Zouch, who married Lady Mary
Berkeley, died in the 8th year of King James the First (1611), leaving
a son John, "now knight, of Codnor Castle, "who married Isabel Lowe,
of Denby, Derbyshire, "by whom hee hath issue John, Katharine, Isable
and Elizabeth, anno 1624." He gives further details, but the above is
sufficient.
There were three successive Sir John Zouches of Codnor,, the first
of whom married Elizabeth, or Eleanor, Whalley — of the family to which
the regicide afterwards belonged — and who died in 1586 (Will) ; the second
married Lady Mary Berkeley, was knighted at Belvoir Castle in 1603,
was the projector of the Virginia colony in 1605, and died in 1611; and the
third marfied Isabel Lowe in 1607, was a member of the Virginia Com-
pany as "Mr. John Zouch" and "John Zouch, Esquire," in 1621-1623, and,
being knighted thereafter, visited Virginia in 1634 as Sir John Zouch,
attempted to plant iron works and was otherwise concerned with the
Colony's affairs, and died in 1639, leaving the Will which was abstracted
for the Magazine.
NOTES AND QUERIES 201
Everything relating to the settlement of Virginia has an interest,
and it is interesting to note that the first Sir John Zouch was a com-
panion in arms of Sir Walter Raleigh in Ireland in 1581-2 (Lives of Sir
Walter Raleigh, Annals of Ireland by the Four Masters, .where the name
appears as "Siuitsi", &c.). and that Raleigh was a prisoner in the Tower
in 1605, but receiving visitors and with his mind constantly turned to the
American Continent; and so it may well be that the settlement project
of Sir John Zouch, the son of his old companion, was suggested by this
ardent colonizer, or had his counsel.
Codnor Castle is now a ruin, and a much pillaged one for stone,
but what is left of it is still shown to visitors, as it was to another Amer-
ican descendent of the Sir John Zouches a few years ago.
McHenry Howard,
901 St. Paul St., Baltimore,
9 January, 1913.
Militia Officers, Prince Edward County, 1777-1781.
From an examination of the Order Books of Prince Edward County
Court, it appears that the officers listed below were appointed and com-
missioned, from May 1777 through December 1781. Several items
throw light on the status before 1777:
May, June, and July 1777 —
Josiah Chambers, John Bibb, David Walker, Captains; Charles
Allen, Jacob Woodson, John Dabney, Lieutenants; Benjamin Allen,
James Carter, Richard Holland, Engsins [p. 512] Robert Goode, William
Wooton, 2nd Lieutenants; William Rice, Ensign; Henry Young, gent;
2nd Lieutenant, Captain Chambers' Company [p. 515] Andrew Baker,
Captain; Sharpe Spencer, 1st Lieutenant [p. 516]
July 1777 "Jacob Woodson, John Watson, John Clarke, Robert
Goode, Thomas Floumoy, William Bibb, Philemon Holcombe, and
William Booker, gentlemen, are appointed to make a tour of this County
to administer the oaths of allegiance as directed by Act of Assembly.
Robert Goode and John Clarke to take the bounds of Captain Clarke's
Company of militia for their district, as also Captain Owen's and Captain
Ligon's Company. — Thomas Floumoy and William Booker to take the
boimds of Captain Biggar's and Said Floumoy's Company for their
district Philemon Holcombe to take Captain Chamber's Company for
his bounds — William Bibb his own company and the Academy [Hampden
Sidney College] John Watson and Jacob Woodson the three upper
companies of militia for their bounds — each paying proper aetention to
such as are not in the muster rolls", [p. 515]
July 1778 John Bibb, Captain; James Bibb, 1st Lieutenant;
John Dupuy, 2nd Lieutenant; Biggars, Jr., Ensign; Yancey Bailey,
Ensign. [P. 1] Thomas Lorton, 2nd Lieutenant, Chambers' Company,
[P. 21
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September, 1778 'George Carrington, gent., Captain of the-
militia in this County.' [P. 4]
March, 1779 'Richard Holland recommended as Lieutenant
of militia in the room of George Booker.' [P. 20]
May, 1779 Williamson Bird, Captain of militia in the room of
Charles Venable, resigned.
Nicholas Davis, 1st Lieutenant; Robert Venable, 2nd Lieutenant;
Sharpe Spencer, Captain; George Booker, 1st Lieutenant; John Clarke,
Jr., Ensign; James Parks, 2nd Lieutenant; Jesse Watson, 2nd Lieutenant;
Drury Watson, Ensign — Thomas Haskins recommended to the gover-
nor for Colonel of Militia, George Walker, Esq. [King's Attorney before
1776, and attorney for the Commonwealth], Lieutenant Colonel, Thomas
Flournoy, Major. [P. 38]. Thomas Moore, Captain; William McGehee,
1st Lieutenant; Ambrose Nelson, 2nd Lieutenant; Samuel Venable,
Captain; John Langhorn, 2nd Lieutenant; Thomas Watkins, Ensign,
Captain Samuel Venable's Company [P. 39].
July, 1779 Richard Holland appointed Captain of Company
late Henry Walker's; Jacob Woodson appointed Captain of Company
late David Walker's [P. 47]
June, 1780 Thomas Lorton, Captain; Jesse Watson, 1st Lieu-
tenant; Drury Watson, 2nd Lieutenant; Dick Holland, Captain; Jacob
Woodson, Captain; William Price, Jr., 1st Lieutenant; Stephen Pettus,
Ensign; Joseph Parks, 1st Lieutenant; James Clarke, 2nd Lieutenant;
John Bell, Ensign [P. 79]
September 1780 William Booker, Ensign; James Wright, 1st
Lieutenant [P. 89.]
March 1781 'John Nash, gentleman recommended to his Ex-
cellency the governor to be County Lieutenant of this County, George
Walker, Esqr, Colonel, Thomas Flournoy, Esqr., Lieutenant Col°, and
John Clarke, Esqr, Major. [P. 96]
September 1781 Philip Matthews, Ensign; Nathaniel Allen,
2nd Lieutenant; Robert Walton, Ensign; John Richards, 1st Lieutenant;
George Pulliam, 2nd Lieutenant; George Foster, 2nd Lieutenant; Peyton
Glenn, Ensign; Stephen Neal, Captain; William Wooton, 1st Lieutenant;
John Clarke, Jr., 2nd Lieutenant; James Clarke, Captain; James Parks,
1st Lieutenant; John Bell, 2nd Lieutenant; William Galispie, Ensign,
'all officers of the militia sworn'. [P. 99]
December 1781 Ambrose Nelson appointed Captain in the
room of John Bibb. [P. 102].
General Robert Lawson, of Prince Edward County,
doubtless took many Prince Edward soldiers with him to Guilford Court
House.
Alfred J. Morrison,
Hampden Sidney, Va.
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Family of Isaac Coles and Eliza Lightfoot.
Isaac Coles, son of John Coles and Mary Winston, his wife, was
bom in Richmond, Virginia Feb. 25, 1747, — married Eliza Lightfoot
April 1, 1771 and Catharine Thompson, his 2nd wife, Jan. 2, 1790
was Colonel of his County, — a member of the First Congress of the U. S.,
— lived as an agriculturalist, first in Halifax and then in Pittsylvania, in
which County he died June 2, 1813.
Eliza Lightfoot, daughter of William Lightfoot of Sandy Point
and Mildred Howell, his wife, — married Isaac Coles April 1, 1771, — and
died July 27, 1781.
John Coles, their 1st son, was bom Oct. 20, 1772 and died May 17,
1796.
Isaac Coles, their 2nd. son, was bom Dec. 16, 1777, married
Lightfoot Carrington Feb. 7, 1811 and died Sept, 28, 1820. ( )
Lightfoot Coles, their daughter, was born June 12, 1780 and died
Dec. 4, 1781.
Family of Isaac Coles and Catharine Thompson, his
Second Wife.
Catharine Thompson, daughter of James Thompson, a native of
Ireland and resident of the city of New York, and Catharine Walton, of
of the same city, his wife, was born April 16, 1769, — married Isaac Coles
then a member of Congress, Jan. 2, 1790,— died July 18, 1848.
Walter Coles, their 1st. son, was bom Dec. 8, 1790, — married
Lettice Priscilla Carrington April 5, 1821. ( )
Catharine Coles, their 1st. daughter, was bom Oct. 24, 1792 and
died Feb. 25, 1794.
Catharine Thompson Coles, their 2nd. daughter, was bom Feb. 10,
1795,— married Baldwin M. Payne Sept. 6, 1827. ( ) died
July 1. 1850.
James Thompson Coles, their 2nd, son, was bom Jan. 9, 1797, —
died May 28, 1838.
John Coles, their 3rd. son, was bom April 26, 1799, — married
Louisa Woodson Payne Nov. 24, 1825 ( ) died August 28,
1847.
Robert Thompson Coles, their 4th son, was born March 15, 1801, —
married Eliza Feam Patton Nov. 28, 1827 ( ) died Jan. 2, 1850.
Jacob Thompson Coles, their 5th. son, was born Aug. 1, 1803, and
died August 18, 1807.
Mary Coles, their 2nd. daughter, was bom Oct. 18, 1805, — mar-
ried James M. Whittle May 29, 1834 ( ) died Sept, 5, 1835,
leaving a daughter ( )
Jacob Thompson Coles, their 6th. son, was born Jan. 23, 1808, —
married Ann Catharine Patton Oct. 28, 1830 ( )
[We are indebted to Rev Roberts Coles, Hamilton, Va, for furnishing,
in responce to a request, the account given above.]
204 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Brooke, Corrections (XX, 435, 436.)
222 Annie instead of Anne; 225 Prouse instead of Prosise; 191 Nails
instead of Nalle; 223 Alvilda, instead of Alivilda.
The Thornton Bible at Ormsby, Caroline County, near Guinea
Station, is dated 1769, and has these entries.
Henry Fitzhugh Thornton, son of Anthony and Susannah Thornton,
bom July 14, 1765, married Ann R. Fitzhugh, Sept. 22, 1785.
Wm. Thornton, bom Sept. 20th, 1767, died Oct. 14, 1783.
John Thornton, born March 4, 1771, married Sarah Fitzhugh,
Sept. 17, 1795, she bom July 22, 1779, died Feb. 25, 1810.
John Thornton married "[2nd]" Jane Laughlin, Oct. 22, 1812, died
Dec. 22, 1821 ["3rd wife Miss Dade — First wife only one who had chil-
dren"].
Thomas Griflfin Thornton, bom June 11, 1775, married Ann H[arri-
son] Fitzhugh, Oct. 29th, 1795,
Anthony Thornton son of Henry and Ann Thornton, bom 29th
July 1786, baptised by Rev. Robert Buchan, had for sureties Mr. John
Henry, George and Daniel Fitzhugh, Mrs. Susannah Thornton, Mrs.
Alice Fitzhugh, Miss Fanny Richards. Mrs. George Fitzhugh.
Susannah Fitzhugh Thornton, daughter of John and Sarah Thorn-
ton, bom Oct. 13th 1797, baptised by Rev. Tredale, had as sureties
Mr. William, George, Thomas and Henry Fitzhugh, Mrs. Mary, Miss
Ann D. and Elizabeth C. Fitzhugh.
George Fitzhugh Thomton, bom May 22nd 1799, baptised by
Rev. John Wiley, Sureties Mr. Griffin Thomton, Mr. John Baylor, Mr.
George Fitzhugh, Jr., Mrs. Lucy Burrell, Mrs. Ann H. Thomton, Mrs.
Ann D. Baylor, Miss Mary Fitzhugh.
John Griffin Thomton, bom Nov. 13, 1800, baptised by Rev.
Thompson. Sureties — Mr. George Fitzhugh, Edward Diggs, Thomas
Knox, Mordica, Edward and Henry Fitzhugh, Mrs. Elizabeth Powell,
Mrs. Sarah Fitzhugh, Mrs. Elizabeth Diggs, Miss Sarah Fitzhugh,
MissPorcia Diggs.
Mrs. Tompkins the present mistress of Crmsly added the com-
ments in quotation marks.
Members of Corbin Family Educated in England.
Francis Corbin fifth son of the Hon. Richard Corbin of Virginia,
America, esq. admitted to the Inner Temple 23 January 1777.
[Francis Corbin, 1760-1820, of "Buckingham House" Middlesex
Co.l
NOTES AND QUERIES 205
Gawin Corbin eldest son of Richard Corbin of King and Queen
Cotmty, Virginia, America, esq admitted to the Middle Temple 11
February 1756; called to the Bar 23 January 1761.
(Gawin Corbin, 1738-1779, member of the Council]
Henry Corbin, son and heir of George Corbin of Hall End co War-
wick esq admitted to Gray's Inn 3 May 1611
[Uncle of Henry Corbin, the emigrant)
Thomas Corbin of Westminster esq admitted to Gray's Inn 8
March 161 4-5.
Thomas Corbin second son of George Corbin of Hall End co War-
wick esq admitted to Gray's Inn 4 March 161 7-8.
[Uncle of Henry Corbin, the emigrant]
Gawin Corbin matriculated as a Pensioner in the University of
Cambridge, from Christ's College, 10 April 1756.
[The member of Coimcil, above I
Richard Henry Corbin, pensioner St Johns College, Cambridge,
admitted Oct 9, 1794
rR H Corbin, 1775-1779, son of Gawin Corbin of Va (above) died un-
married]
Henry Corbin, of Co. Warwick, arm. Queens College, Oxford,
Matric. Nov. 3, 1609, aged 16; bar.-at-law. Grays Inn 1617 as son & heir
of George of Hallend, Co. Warwick, esq.
Same as Henry, of Grays Inn, above-
Lafayette Letter.
Translation of a letter from Lafayette to Washington, foimd among
the papers of Major (Lieut. Col.) Richard C. Anderson, aide to Lafayette.
"Richmond 2 May
Mem:
Had the Pennsylvanians arrived before Lord Comwallis, I had
determined to attack the enemy, and I do not doubt that we would have
been conquerors — their inexplicable delay cannot be too much deplored
and will exercise a great influence over the fate of the campaign. If
they had arrived in time to ^id me in supporting the first onset of Com-
wallis I would have been satisfied; but from a reply of General Wayne,
dated the 17, th and received to day, I fear that at this moment they
have hardly left York town."
(Contributed by Edw L. Anderson, Cincinnati.)
208 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Whitehead-Boykin
Are there any descendants who can tell me the parents of William
Whitehead widower of Southampton Co,, Va, who first married Patience
Boykin, dau' of William Boykin (d. 1789) Isle of Wight Co Va.— and
secondly married in 1790 Mrs Richard Lamb, widow of Richard Lamb,
Quartermaster in Revolution — nee Clarissa Boswell, the daughter of
Joseph and Elizabeth (Elliott) Boswell of Gloucester Va. Mr Hugh
Blair Grigsby, Chancellor of William and Mary College said the ancestor
of this William Whitehead, came to this country at the time of Lieut;
Governor Spottswood. The family of Dr. Richard Whitehead, came to
to this cotmtry I am told at the time of Wesley-
Crozier — Mr. William A. Crozier the well-known genealogist died re-
cently at his residence, Hasbrouck Heights, N. J. His valuable publica-
tions, especially those relating to Virginia records, are familiar to all
investigators in this field. He had in the press at the time of his death
a volume containing abstracts of the wills of Westmoreland County from
the beginning to 1800. This work, (which was ready with the exception
of part of the index) will be completed by his widow, who resides at Has-
brouck Heights, N. J.
Dickinsons of Virginia.
The reunion of the Dickinson Family at Amherst, Mass., in 1883, re-
sulted in the publication of a book on the history of the family. This
book states that three sons of Charles Dickinson of London, Walter,
Henry and John, came to Virginia in 1654. It traces Walter into Mary-
land and names him as the founder of the Talbot Dickinsons, who gained
distinction in political, military and literary persuits. It states that
John moved into Pennsylvania, and became the progenitor of a line in
that state. And it disposes of Henry by stating that he married a Miss
Jennings, settled in Virginia, and became the patriarch of the Dickinsons
of the Old Dominion and the South.
I can find no foundation for this last statement, although I have been
informed of several pedigrees prepared by a genealogist of great reputa-
tion, which traces a complete lineage from this Henry Dickinson.
I am working on the genealogy of the Dickinsons of Virginia with an
idea of publishing the results of my investigation. If any one can give
me authentic information on this subject, showing the lineage of said
Henry, I shall certainly be glad to receive it. In fact, I should be glad to
have all descendants of Virginia Dickinsons send me as much data as
they possess regarding their ancestry, in order that I may compile as full
account of the family as possible.
Wm. Elmore Dickinson,
Professor of Electrical Engineering,
West Virginia University,
Morgantown, W. Va.
NOTES AND QUERIES 207
The International Congress of Historical Studies will be held
in London April 3-9, 1913.
Utley.
"Will desired of John Utley of Goochland County, who was granted
land in Henrico — Goochland of 900 acres in 1725 called Tuckahoe, and
sold the same in 1731 to Anthony Hoggatt. Witnesses Son John Utley,
Thomas Cook son. What connection was he to John Utlye, John Utie
the counciller of Hogg Island, York Co., 1620, and Ensign Joseph Utie
of James Island 1625. ' '
Mrs. Lipscomb Nowell,
1628 Franklin Street,
Beaumont, Texas.
(To be Continued.)
Some Notes from County Records.
Will of Nathaniel Knight, Chirurgeon, dated Feb. 18, 1677-8,
proved March 5, 1677-8, no children, legacy to father Samuel Knight
living at Stroodswater, Gloucestershire (Eng.) — Surry Records.
Deposition of Thomas Portman, March 1677, about matters oc-
curring twenty-eight years before — refers to "Captain Barrett father of
Mr. James Barrett now living in Virginia" — Surry Records.
Deed Jan. 28, 1679, from Col. John Dodman of Mulberry Island
stating that some years past he gave his daughter Susanna in marriage
to Robert Marcey of Potomac, and gave them a tract of land on Potomac,
and they died without issue, and he now gives the land to his daughter
Margaret in marriage with William Appleyard, of Mulberry Island —
Isle of Wight Records.
Will of George Hardy, dated March 16, 1654. "I give one thou-
sand pounds of Tobo. towards the building of the Church in this parish
in case it be built with brick." — Isle of Wight Records. [What Isle of
Wight Church was this?]
Edward Yalden of Isle of Wight mentioned in 1669 or 1670 as Son
of Anthony Yalden, of Winchester, England. — Isle of Wight Records.
208 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
GENEALOGY.
THE ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ROLFE
WITH NOTICES OF SOME CONNECTED FAMILIES.
(Continued.)
[Since this account was prepared the compiler has been informed that
Mr. Wilson Miles Cary of Baltimore, the distinguished genealogist,
who spent sone time in England, thinks that he has discovered that
John Rolfe, of Virginia, was not a son of John and Dorothea Rolfe, but
belonged to another branch of the same family. The proof is not yet
positive, but Mr. Cary is still having the matter investigated and has
promised to give this Magazine the result of his researches]
John Rolfe.
John Rolfe the son of John and Dorothea Rolfe married in Eng-
land and sailed for Virginia in May 1609. The ship in which he came
was wrecked on the Bermudas and here a daughter was bom, who was
named Bermuda and christened Feb .11, 1609-10. They reached Virginia
in May 1610 and Rolfe's wife and child had either died at the Bermudas
or only lived a short time after reaching Virginia.
He became a prominent member of the Colony and is said to have
been the first person to suggest the cultivation of tobacco. Early in
ApHl 1614 his celebrated marriage with Pocahontas took place. Though
evidently greatly attached to her, he had wrestling in spirit (he had
much of the Pi^ritanism so prevalent in the eastern counties of England)
before he could make up his mind to marry one of heathen birth.
He wrote to Governor Dale: "Nor am I out of hope but one day
to see my cotmtrie, nor so void of friends, nor mean of birth, but there
to obtain a match to my great content"; but love was stronger than his
fears. The curious and interesting letter referred to is most accessible
in Meade's "Old Churches & Families of Virginia", I. 126-129.
In 1616 Rolfe and Pocahontas went to England and her reception
there and the interest she excited are well known.
They were about to set sail for Virginia, on their return, when
Pocahontas died at Gravesend and was buried in the Church there
March 21, 1616-17. Some confusion has been caused by John Rolfe's
POCAHONTAS
From a photograph of the original portrait
Negative, property of
Cook, Fhotographer, Richmond
GENEALOGY. 209
name appearing on the register as "Thomas Wrolfe;" but this is no
doubt to be accounted for by the fact that he was a stranger only at
Gravesend to embark, and that the clerk or rector made a mistake in
the name. The Virginia Society of Colonial Dames will at an early date
erect a memorial to Pocahontas in Gravesend Church.
He tried to bring his infant son Thomas with him to Virginia;
but when the ship touched at Plymouth it was obvious that the child
could not stand the voyage, and he was left there with Sir Lewis Stukeley,
until he could be transferred to the care of his uncle Henry Rolfe of Lon-
don.
On his return to Virginia Rolfe wrote a letter to Sir Edwin Sandys
dated Jamestown, June 8, 1617 in which he speaks of his grief at the
death of Pocahontas and explains why he had to leave his son. This
letter was printed in this Magazine X 134-1 ?S.
In the year 1617 Rolfe was appointed Recorder and Secretary
General of the Colony, and in 1619 was a member of the Council. As a
member of this body he sat in the first American legislature, the Virginia
Assembly of 1619, and is the only member of that Assembly who is known
to have descendants living at the present day. He married in or before
1620 Jane, daughter of Captain William Pierce (also of the Virginia Coun-
cil) and had a daughter Elizabeth bom 1620. John Rolfe died in 1622
and it is probable that he was killed in the great Indian Massacre of that
year. In addition to the letters referred to Rolfe was the author of a
"relation" of events in Virginia. Smith, Hamor and all of the early
writers speak of him as an honest and worthy gentleman.
His will has been published (in abstract) in Waters' "Gleanings"
and is as follows:
John Rolfe, of James City in Virginia, Esq., dated 10 March 1621,
proved May 21, 1630 [in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury] by William
Pyers [Pierce], Father-in-law William Pyers, gentleman, to have charge
of the two small children of very tender age. A parcel of land in the
Country of Tappahannah between two creeks over against James City
in the Country or Continent of Virginia, to son Thomas Rolfe and his
heirs, failing his issue to my daughter Elizabeth; [The land here be-
queathed was no doubt the "Smiths Fort" tract], next to my right heirs.
Land on Mulberry Island Virginia, to my wife Jane, during her natural
life then to daughter Elizabeth. To my servant Robert Davies twent_
pounds. Witnesses: Temperance Yeardley, Richard Buck, John Cart-
wright, Robert Davys and John Milwarde.
Thomas Rolfe.
Thomas Rolfe, the son of John Rolfe and Pocahontas was bom in
Virginia in 1615 and was taken to England by his parents. When his
mother died and his father returned to Virginia, im March 1616-17 he
was left at Plymouth under the care of Sir Lewis Stukeley, who became
210 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
SO notorious and generally detested for his treachery to Sir Walter
Raleigh. Thomas Rolfe was afterwards removed to the care of his
uncle Henry Rolfe, of London, who was a member of the Virginia Com-
pany. The boy remained with him for a number of years. On August
23rd 1618 the Virginia Company wrote to Governor Argall in Virginia.
"We cannot imagine why you should give us warning that Opechankano
and the natives have given the country to Mr. Rolfe's child and that
they reseve it from all others tmtil he comes of years." It would ap-
pear from this that the Indians were supposed to have intended that
Thomas Rolfe should succeed to the chieftanship of the Powhatans.
In October 1622 Mr. Henry Rolfe petitioned the Virginia Com-
pany requesting that he be paid out of the estate of his brother John
Rolfe for having brought up the son of his brother and Pocahontas. In a
grant of land in 1635 to Captain William Pierce the name of Thomas
Rolfe appears among the head rights. This probably indicates the time
that he came to Virginia. He was then about twenty years old.
"He afterwards," says Stith, "became a person of fortune and
distinction in the Colony." In 1641 he petitioned the Governor for per-
mission to visit his aunt "Cleopatre and his Kinsman Opecancanough."
In 1646 as "Lieutenant Thomas Rolfe" he was granted Fort Chicka-
hominy and 600 acres adjoining on condition of keeping a guard there.
Between that date and 1663 he patented a number of other tracts of land.
There is recorded in Surry County, in 1673, a deed dated Jime 20, 1654,
from Thomas Rolfe to William Corker, conveying 120 acres in Surry,
lying between "Smiths fort old field" and "the Devils' Woodyard,"
which was the property of Thomas Rolfe "by gift from the Indian King."
It also appears from various depositions recorded in Surry that he at one
time owned the plantation called "Smiths Fort," 1200 acres, at the
mouth of Gray's Creek which he sold to Thomas Warren. One of the
deponents states- that he was present in 1654 with Mr. Thomas Rolfe in
Mr. Warren's "fifty foot brick house" on "Smiths Fort" plantation soon
after it was completed.
Warren's "Fifty foot brick house" is still standing, the oldest
brick dwelling in Virginia to which a date can be assigned. The farm
still called "Smiths Fort" now belongs to a prosperous negro farmer. In
addition to the old house there is much of interest in the neighborhood.
On John Smith's map of Virginia may be seen at the mouth of Gray's
Creek opposite Jamestown, the inscription "The New Fort". Smith
states that on 1608 or 1609 he built a fort as a place of refuge in case of
being compelled to retreat from Jamestown "on a convenient river upon
a high commanding eminence." It has been suggested foolishly, that
this fort was the "Old Stone House" on Ware Creek in the upper part of
James City County; but any retreat to this place would have been through
dense forests which afforded ample cover for the Indians. It seems
there can be no doubt that the fort Smith refers to was the "New Fort"
on Gray's Creek, and that this was on the "Smith's Fort" tract. About
REMAINS OF EARTHWORKS AT SMITH'S FORT
VIEW FROM THE BLUFF AT SMITH'S FORT
GENEALOGY. 211
a half mile from the brick house referred to is a high bluff, about the
middle of a long bend in Gray's Creek. On the opposite side are wide
marshes, and ravines at the sides of the bluff make it something of a
promontory. Across the rear of the bluff traces of trenches can be dis-
tinctly seen, though the covering of leaves makes them, in the photo-
graph, less distinct than they really are. There can be little doubt that
we have here the remains of Smiths "New Fort."
Thomas Rolfe's wife is said (though there is no proof of the correct-
ness of the statement) to have been a Miss Poythress, and he had an only
child, Jane, who married in 1675 Col. Robert Boiling and died in 1676.
Among the James City records (now destroyed) was the following deed,
communicated to the "Southern Literary Messenger" by the once well-
known Virginia antiquary, Richard Randolph: "This Indenture made
1st October 1698 between John Boiling of the County of Henrico and
parish of Varina, Gent, son and heir of Jane late wife of Robert Boiling,
of Charles City County, Gent, which Jane was the only child of Thomas
Rolfe, dec'd, conveying to William Brown, of the parish of Wilmington,
in the County of James City, one thousand acres of land commonly called
the Fort on Chickahonimy River, as per patent granted to Thomas
Rolfe (this was Fort Chickahominy granted him in 1646).
Thomas Rolfe probably died in James City County, so the records
in regard to his will death &c. have been destroyed along with all the
records of that County.
(To BE CONTINtmD.)
THE TURNER FAMILY OF KING GEORGE COUNTY &c.
(Continued.)
7. Henry Smith '•Turner (Thomas^), bom 1770, died July 18,
1834, was first of Westmoreland County and afterwards of "Wheatland",
Jefferson Coimty; was a Justice of Westmoreland 1795, and member of the
House of Delegates for that Coimty in 1799 and 1800. He married
first Lucy Hopkins (who had no issue) and, secondly, in 1796, Catherine,
daughter of Col. Thomas Blackburn, of "Ripon Lodge" Prince William
Co.
Issue: 11. Thomas B^. (of whom later); 12. BushrodW^:, appointed
midshipman U. S. N. 1824, and was lost at sea Sept. 30, 1828; 13. Col.
George W^., born 1810, graduated at West Point, served as Second lieu-
tenant U. S. A., was in the Florida War and afterwards resigned. He
was was murdered by John Brown's party at Harper's Ferry, October 17,
1859. Never married; 14. William Fauntleroy^ (of whom later); 15.
Mary, married — AUibone, of Philadelphia; 16. Jane, married Dr. Byrd;
17. Christine married Dr. Cordell; 18. Catherine, married Dr. Wright
of Chicago.
212 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
8. Thomas* Turner, of "Kinloch", Fauquier Co., bom April
3rd 1772, died Jan. 30, 1839, Justice of King George Co. 1798 and mem-
ber of the House of Delegates from that County 1798 and 1799, removed
to Fauquier; married at "Shiriey", October 2nd 1798, Elizabeth Carter,
daughter of Col. Robert Randolph of "Eastern View" Fauquier County.
(She was bom Oct. 2nd 1782, and died May 1866.)
Issue: 19. Susan Baynton, bom at "Eastem View," Nov. 24, 1799,
married John Hill Carter, of "Falkland", (and had a daughter Jane who
married Robert Beverley); 20. Henry Smith, bom Nov. 6. 1800, died
in jnfancy; 21. Elizabeth Anne, bom Nov. 27. 1801, died in infancy; 22.
Charles Cocke^, bom at "Oakenbrow," April 11. 1803, appointed mid-
shipman U. S. N. 1820, Lieutenant Commander 1851; married Margaret
Patterson, of Baltimore; died March 4, 1861; 23. Dr. Robert Randolph^,
bom at "Oakenbrow," Nov. 26. 1804, married, 1841, Eleanour, daughter
of William Taylor, of King William Co. (and had Eliza*, who married
R. B. Puller, and Mary Carter*) ; 24. Shirley Carter^, (of whom later) 25.
Thomas^ (of whom later); 26. William Fitzhugh (of whom later); 27.
Henry Smith (of whom later) ; 28. Martha (or Marietta) Favmtleroy, bom
at "Cloverland", Nov. 4, 1812, married George Cuthbert Powell, of
Middleburg (and had issue: Randolph married Anna Hunt; Ida, mar-
ried Henry Dulaney; Kate married George Carter of "Oatlands," and
Virginia married Charles Minnegerode, Jr., of Alexandria, Va.) 29. La
vinia Beverley bom at "Cloverlands," March 5, 1814; married Dr. John
Fauntleroy; 30. Edward Carter** (of whom later); 31. Caroline Virginia,
bora at "Kinloch", March 22. 1818, died unmarried; 32. Elizabeth Ran-
dolph, bom at "Kinloch," May 19, 1819, married Nathaniel Lough-
borough.
(To BE Continued.)
THE BEVERLEY FAMILY.
(Continued.)
(See XX, 437)
32. William" Beverley (Robert*) entered Trinity College, Cam-
bYidge University, April 4, 1781, at the age of 18. He did not return to
Virginia; but made his home at Beverley, in Yorkshire. He served for
thirty years as a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant for the East Riding
of Yorkshire and in 1832 was appointed vice-lieutenant.
He married Mary, daughter and co-heiress (with her sister Anna
Margaretta, wife of Lord Grantley) of Jonathan Midgeley, of Beverley,
and with her acquired a large fortime. Issue: 46. Robert McKenzie,
a magistrate and deputy lieutenant for the East Riding died in 1868
GENEALOGY. 213
without issue; 47. Maria (great niece and sole heir of Anne, Dowager
Lady Denison widow of Sir Thomas Denison, judge of the King's Bench)
married in 1814, Edmimd Beckett, M. P., son of Sir John Beckett, Bart,
48. Anna Margaretta.
The papers printed below were sent to the Historical Society by
Mr. Fowler with the letters published in the last number.
Extract from a fragment of Mr. R. M. Beverley's diary dated June 1837.
Amongst the papers which have passed through my hands this
day I find many relating to the will of my paternal grandfather which
seems to have been the cause of much litigation & strife amongst his
numerous sons & daughters — he died where he had lived at his vast es-
tate of Blandfield in the county of Essex in the state of Virginia, North
America; & it is painful to see how much of his property was in slaves
[Quotes a clause in Robt Beverley's will, already printed]
Many other parts of his will mention his slaves, he says he has al-
ready given his son Robert Beverley (his 2nd son) sixty negroes — he
gives 28 negroes to each of his daughters —
In codicils he says he has given 36 slaves to his son Carter, & 36
to his son Byrd — In many passages he mentions his slaves — sometime
thus 'my slaves & stock mules' His second son Robert
succeeded in supplanting his elder brother my father in the inheritance —
My grandfather left my father £6000 & nothing more, though to
raise this sum slaves were to be sold together with an estate — His second
son probably inherited estates of a value not less than £lOO,000: he still
lives at the family mansion at Blandfield — he has one son — My grand-
father was bom at Blandfield, but was sent to be educated at Beverley
Grammar School & Cambridge —
My great-grandfather was much in England, & was educated at
Beverley, but I think bom in Virginia, but of this I am not certain [He
was bom in Va]
My great great grandfather Robert Beverley sold his Yorkshire
estates & was the first of the family to go to Virginia [Incorrect he was
the 2nd generation]. He is the author of that 'History of Virginia' that
de Tocqueville quotes —
My grandfather died in 1800— Washington was a cousin of my
grandfather — The Washingtons came from South Cave in Yorkshire —
In pursuance of the directions of my grandfather's will I find the
following copy of an advertisement inserted in the provincial news-
papers—
'Pursuant to the last will & testament of the late Robert Beverley
'of Blandfield, will be sold for ready money at the Bowling green
'on Tuesday the 13th January 1801 being Caroline Court, if fair;
214 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
'if not the next fair day, Fifty Negroes consisting of very likely
'middleaged, young men, boys, young women & children.
Carter Beverley
Only Acting Executor'
Culpepper County
8th Aug. 1800.
Extract from a fragment of a letter written to Mr. R. M. Beverley
from Mr. Francis P. Corbin from Paris during the Civil War in America* —
of those of your name I have heard btit little lately as they are for the
most part in the far South, but I make no doubt all are under arms that
can bear them. Our Cousin William of Blandfield must be near if not
turned of 70, & although unable to help "manibus pedibusque" in the
din of battle he supplies the sinews of war in another sense —
His former banker is now here & tells me he "enjoys good health
& a very ample estate for any cotmtry — " He has never married & it
is supposed that he will leave his property to the son of his brother
Bradshaw who lived '& died near Winchester in Virginia where he too
had a good estate & charming residence which the enemy have not
spared —
Mr. William Beverley's estate partly inherited & partly increased
by his own savings & investments was estimated before the war began
at some £250000 to £300000 sterling or about a million & ahalf of dollars.
I give you all these family details as thinking they may be of interest
to you —
(To BE Continued.)
THE POINDEXTER FAMILY.
(Continued.)
The Will of Thomas Poindexter.
[The testator was a son of John Poindexter of Louisa Co. He died in
Franklin Co, Ky where his will was proved; but a copy was recorded in
Louisa Co. See this Magazine XX, 110, 220, 441]
In the name of God amen. I bequeth my soul into the hands of God and
my body to the dust from whence it came: being in perfect sense and mem-
ory. I now make this my last will and testament of what it hath pleased
God to give me, in manner as followeth towit. 1st. my desire is that
all my just debts should be paid. 2nd. I give and bequeth unto my son
James two negroes by the names of Phillis and Martin, one gtm to him
and his heirs forever. 3rd. I give and bequeth unto my son Robert two
negroes by the name of Tom and Ann, one feather bed and furniture,
to him and his heirs forever.
GENEALOGY. 215
4th. I give and bequeth unto my son Richard one negro wench
by the name of Nan and her increase to him and his heirs forever.
5th. I give and bequeth unto my son George two negroes by the
names of Sally and Milly and their increase to him and his heirs forever.
6th. I give and bequeth imto my daughter Elizabeth Jones
Commack one negro women named Mary, her increase, one cow and
feather bed and furniture to her and her heirs forever.
7th. I give and bequeth unto my daughter Lucy, three negroes
by the names of Hannah, James and Jude and their increase; one cow
and calf, one feather bed and furniture to her and her heirs forever.
8th. My desire is that the negroes I sold for my life, should be
collected and equally divided amoung my children, Viz. — my sons Ga-
briel, Thomas, Robert, James, Richard, George and my daughter Molly
Cosbys heirs- Viz-Stith Cosby, Nicholas, Frances, Betsy and Garland:
my daughters, Elizabeth Jones Cammack and Lucy, them and their in-
crease to them and their heirs forever.
9th. I give imto Garland Cosby's daughter Betsy, one negro by
name Milly and her increase to her and her heirs forever.
10th. I give and bequeth unto Garland Cosby's sons — Viz —
Stith Cosby, Nicholas, Francis and Garland, one negro woman by name
Dinah and her increase to them and theirs forever.
11th. I give and bequeth all my lands to be equally divided
among all my children. Viz. -my sons John, Gabriel, Thomas, Robert,
James, Richard, George and my daughter Molly Cosby's heirs. Viz.
Stith Cosby, Nicholas, Francis and Garland; my daughters, Elizabeth J-
Cammack and Lucy, to them and their heirs forever.
12th. I give and bequeth unto my son Gabriel, one horse and
plantation tools and one large looking glass, to him and his heirs forever.
I do appoint my sons Thomas Poindexter and James Poindexter
and Garland Cosby, executors to this my last will and testament.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my
seal this fifteenth day of July one thousand seven himdred and ninety
six.
Signed sealed and
delivered in the presence
of Josh Adams
John Perry
Robert Perry
Annexed to the above will my desire is, that all the residue of my estate
both real and personal, that has not been heretofore mentioned should
be sold and all my debts paid and the balance of the money to be applied
to the use of purchasing a house for my daughter Lucy and her heirs for-
ever: also my desire is the old negro wench Jude should be set at liberty
the remainder of her days.
Thomas Poindexter.
216 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Franklin Covmty — At a court held for the county aforesaid on Tuesday
the twelfth day of December 1796 the last will and testament of Thomas
Poindexter deceased was produced in Court and proved by the oaths of
Joseph Adams, John Perry, Robert Perry, subscribing witnesses thereto,
which was ordered to be recorded.
Test. Daniel Weisiger C. F. C.
At a court held for the said County on Tuesday the 18th. day of Jan. 1797
the last will and testament of Thomas Poindexter deed, was this day
exibited in open Court and being heretofore proved and ordered to be
recorded except as to the Codicil thereto annexed, there being no sub-
scribing witnesses to the same: thereupon Christopher Cammack and
Robert Perry came into Court, and being sowm, declared that they were
acquainted with the handwriting of the said deceased and that they be-
lieved that the signature to the said Codicil was written with the hand of
of the said Thomas Poindexter, therefore it is ordered by the Court that
the same be recorded.
James Poindexter one of the executors named in said will, came
into Court and having made oath thereto, as the law directs, on his
motion certificate is granted him for obtaining a probate thereof in due
form, on his giving security: he together with Christopher Cammack
and Robert Perry his securities, entered into and acknol wedged their
bond with security of two thousand pounds with condition agreeable to
law.
Daniel Weiseger C. F. C.
A copy Daniel Weiseger C. F. C.
Kentucky, Franklin County, to wit:
Family Bible Record of Thomas Poindexter.
(Son of Thomas Poindexter, whose will precedes this.)
Thomas Poindexter Sr., was bom May 25th, 1760.
Sally Ragland (Poindexter) his wife was bom June 6th, 1769.
They were married March 28th, 1790.
Colin Johnson was born Dec. 7th, 1786.
Mary his wife (who was M. Poindexter) was bom Feb. 11th, 1793.
They were married Jany. 15th, 1818.
Wm. S. Winston was born Oct. 12th, 1796.
Anna L. his wife( who was Anna L. Poindexter) was bom July 5th,
1803. They were married January 9th, 1822.
1822.
GENEALOGY. 217
Children of Thos. Poindexter, Sr., towit:-
Lucy Jones Poindexter wa^ bom July 21st, 1791.
Polly Poindexter (Johnson) was bom Feb. 11th, 1793.
Patsy Poindexter (Lily) was born Oct. 25th, 1794.
Ww. Ragland Poindexter was bom Mch. 9th, 1796.
Thomas Poindexter, Jr. was born April 19th, 1798.
Sally Ragland Poindexter (Perkins) was bom Dec. 27th, 1799.
James L. Poindexter was bom July 1st, 1801.
Ann Lipscomb Poindexter (Winston) was bom July 5th, 1803.
George Poindexter was bom Mch. 8th, 1805.
Louisa Poindexter was born Feb. 13th, 1807.
Saml. Ragland Poindexter was born Sep. 13th, 1808.
John Jones Poindexter was bom Aug. 19th, 1816.
Henry Poindexter was bom Aug. 1st, 1812.
Edward Poindexter was bom July 7th, 1814.
DEATHS.
Mary Johnson wife of Colin Johnson died Nov. 22nd, 1820.
Doct. Wm. R. Poindexter died at Woodville Mississippi, July 20th,
Lucy J. Poindexter died Nov. 30th, 1827.
Saml. Ragland Poindexter died Mch. 23rd, 1835.
Ann L. Winston, wife W. S. Winston died Nov. 22nd, 1836.
Sally R. Perkins, wife Nathl. Perkins died April 29th, 1837.
George Poindexter died May 13th, 1837.
John Jones Poindexter died Jime 12th, 1837.
Louisa Poindexter died Aug. 29th, 1840.
Henry Poindexter died at Vicksburg, Jany. 4th, 1843.
Thomas Poindexter, Sr. died Apl. 10th, 1843.
Mrs Sally Ragland Poindexter died Feb. 10th, 1857.
Thomas Poindexter Jr. died Feby. 7th, 1851.
Edward Poindexter died Apl. 15th, 1851.
James L. Poindexter died June 29th, 1853.
Patsy Poindexter (Lily) died April 3rd, 1875.
I
1. Charles Poindexter son of Dr. James W. Poindexter a dmg-
gist in Charlottesville.
2. Thomas Poindexter married a Miss Eliza Burton of Bedford.
He died in 1850. Three of his children were living at his old home "Wav-
erly" near Bellevue P. O. Bedford. Mrs. Sally West who had children,
Mrs. Maggie Moore and her children, and Jenny B. Poindexter unmarried.
3. Edward stood very high in Louisa for sense and character and
management.
218 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
4. Many of the Johnsons, Winstons, Perkins, Lillys are yet liv-
ing in Louisa and adjoining coimties.
The family line was as follows:
1. John Poindexter, his son, the first Justice of the Peace.
2. Thomas Poindexter (Son of John).
3. Thomas Poindexter, brother of John, James, Robert, Richard
and Gabriel, George and son of Thomas.
4. James L. Poindexter his son.
(To BE Continued.)
EPPES WILLS.
Will of Richard Eppes.
I, Richard Eppes, of City Point, in Prince George County, know-
ing the certainty of death & the uncertainty of the time when, do there-
fore make this my last will and testament in the manner and form as
followeth, vizt: —
Imprimus — I give imto my son Richard Epes, my plantation and
track of land whereon I now dwell called City Point, (except five acres)
after my wife's decease, I also give unto my said son four negroes, two
of them to be midling good working hands in the judgment of my execu-
tors, the other two young ones, one feather bed and furniture, six head of
cattle young & old, one midling good horse, bridle & saddle, to him and
his heirs forever.
Item — I give vmto my son Archibald Eppes, one half of my planta-
tion and tract of land in Charles City called the Island, after my wife's
decease; I also give unto my said son, four negroes, two of them to be
midling good workers, the other two young ones, one feather bed and
furniture, six head of cattle, young and old, one midling good horse, sad-
dle and bridle, to him and his heirs forever.
Item — I give unto my son Thomas Eppes, one half of my planta-
tion and tract of land in Charles City called the Island, after my wife's
decease; I give also unto my said son, four negroes, two of them to be
midling good workers, the other two young ones, one feather bed and
furniture, six head of cattle young and old, one midling good horse, sad-
dle & bridle, to him and his heirs forever.
Item — I give unto my son Robertson Eppes, my plantation and
tract of land in Prince George County called Rise lands, after my wife's
decease; I also give unto my said son two lots of land, at City Point of
one acre each adjoining the river, near about where Hamlin Allen now
1 ives, also four negroes, two of them to be middling good workers, the other
two young ones, one feather bed and furniture, one middling good horse,
saddle and bridle, to him and his heirs forever.
GENEALOGY 219
Item — I give unto my daughter Elizabeth Eppes, one lot of land at
City Point, of one acre, adjoining the river, to be laid off at the discretion
of my executors, adjoining the lots devised to my son Robertson whenever
she arrives to lawful age, or is married, also four negroes, two to be work-
ers and two young ones, one feather bed & furniture, and four head of
cattle.
Item — I give unto my daughter Christian Eppes when she arrives
at age or is married, one lot of land at City Point, of one acre adjoining
the river, to be laid off with the lot before mentioned at the discretion
of my executors, near where Hamlin Allen now resides, also four negroes,
two of them to be workers and the other two young ones, one feather bed
and furniture, and four head of cattle.
Item — I give imto my daughter Polly Eppes, when she arrives at
age or is married, one lot of land at City Point adjoining the river and the
lot above devised to contain one acre, and be laid off at the discretion
of my executors, also four negroes, two of them to be workers, and the
other two young ones, one feather bed and furniture, and four head of
cattle.
Item — I lend unto my dear and loving wife Christian Eppes, the
use of all my lands, during her natural life, and I give her the residue of
my estate, both within doors & without (excepting what I have already
given away) for her own comfortable support and the maintenance of my
children, and respecting this residuary part of my estate, I grant my dear
wife full privilege to dispose of it at her death, in any manner she please
among my children.
Item — It is my desire that in lotting off the negroes for my chil-
dren as they arrive to age, that particular care may be taken to satisfy the
poor creatures, by keeping families together as much as the circumstan-
ces of things will admit, and that the ancient and infirm negroes in my
family shall be comfortably supported in their old age.
Item — I desire that estate may not be appraised.
Lastly — I appoint my dear wife executrix, and my son Richard and
my brother-in-law William Robertson, executors to my last will and
testament. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and af-
firmed my seal this twenty seventh day of November in the year of our
Lord one thousand, seven himdred and eighty eight.
[Sealed and delivered Richd Eppes. [seal]
in presence of
Archibald Robertson.]
(To BE CON'CLUDED.)
220 BOOK REVIEWS
BOOK REVIEWS.
A History of Rockingham County, Virginia. By John W. Wayland,
Ph. D., Professor of History State Normal School, Harrisonburg-
Va., Member Virginia Historical Society, American Historical
Association, Pennsylvania German Society &c.; Author of "Po-
litical Opinions of Thomas Jefferson", "The German Element of
the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia &c." Ruebush-Elkins Com-
pany, Dayton, Virginia, 1912, pp. 467, with 94 illustrations and
maps, and full index.
Rockingham is one of Virginia's largest and richest covinties and
has been very fortunate in having so able and scholarly an historian
as Dr. Wayland. In every phase of the history, civil, military, relig-
ious, and economic, the work of the trained student is evident.
While giving in a very interesting way all of the things usually
found in county histories, the author has studied and presents many im-
portant subjects which the average writer of such works overlooks, or
does nor understand the importance of.
The appendix contains much matter of interest including a good
bibliography.
If our reviewing space were not crowded it would be a pleasure to
enter more fully into the character and merits of this admirable work.
Richmond Her Past and Present. By W. Asbury Christian, D. D.
Illustrated. Manufactured by L. H. Jenkins, Richmond, Va.,
1912. pp. 618 with index.
It is very surprising that Richmond should so long have been with-
out a historian. Mordecai and Little, writing many years ago, did but
little to supply the want, and Dr. Christian's work can hardly be called
a history. It is however a very useful chronicle. The author has been
an indefatigable student of newspaper files, and has given, in compact
form, most of the great and small events in the history of the City down
to the present time.
As a chronicle of events, especially since the Revolution, "Rich-
mond, Her Past and Present" has much value. As a real history there
is much lacking.
VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE. 221
The author, indeed, shows in many places an unfamiliarity with
history outside of the newspapers. On p. 3 he seems to think that
Henricopolis was at the site of Richmond. Certainly there never was a
new Henrico at Tuckahoe.
St. Johns Church (p. 8) was not called St. Johns when it was built,
but was given that name about 1829. An account is given of Amnold's
occupation of Richmond; but not of that by Comwallis later in the same
year. The plan for Gabriel's Insurrection (pp. 52-53) had been arranged
much more carefully than would be thought from the account given here.
On page 198 it is stated in regard to William and Mary College
that "the Assembly after the burning of the town of Henrico, ordered
it to be built in Williamsburg." Henrico was burnt in 1622 and William
and Mary was not chartered until 1692-3. The two College plans had
nothing to do with each other.
A series of views of Richmond at various dates is reproduced
and adds to the value of what, as has been stated, is a very useful book.
Dr. William LeRoy Broun, compiled by Thomas L. Broun, assisted
by Bessie Lee Broun and Sally T. Ordway, New York. The
Neale Publishing Company 1912, pp. 247, with portraits.
Dr. Broun did admirable work as an officer of the ordnance de-
partment of the Confederacy; but his great lifework was what he did for
education in the South after the war; especially as President of the
Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College. The story of his life
was worth preserving, and it has been well told by the authors of this
book.
A large part of the Volume consists of letters to and from Dr.
Broun, articles on his life and work other than the authors, and addresses
by Dr. Broun himself.
The Land Where We Were Dreaming and other Poems of Daniel
Bedinger Lucas. Edited by Charles W. Kent, Ph. D., and Vir-
ginia Lucas with a critical introduction by Charles W. Kent, Ph.
D. University Edition, Richard G. Badger. The Gorham Press
Boston [1913], pp. 252 with portrait.
As our review department has to be confined to historical sub-
jects, we can only note the receipt of this collection of Judge Lucas'
poems.
Captain Roger Jones of London and Virginia — Some of His Ante-
cedents AND Descendants. With appreciative notices of the
Families of Bathurst, Belfield, Browning, Carter, Catesby, Cocke,
Graham, Fauntleroy, Hickman, Hoskins, Latane — Lewis, Meri-
wether, Skelton, Walker, Waring and others. By Judge L. H.
222 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE
Jones [Louisville, Ky.], Albany, New York. J. Munsell's Sons
1891, pp. 442 with 30 portraits, and 75 fac-similes of manuscripts,
copies of Armorial Seals, views &c. For sale by the author.
Judge Jones' history if this noted family, which has given so many
distinguished sons to the civil and military service of the Country, has
long been well and favorably known. He is the fortunate possessor of a
very large and valuable collection of family papers covering the period
from the emigrant to the present time. Many of these papers contained
signatures, armorial seals and other matters of interest outside as well
as within the family connection, and many have desired to have access
to them. In addition to genealogical information they contain much
relating to social history, education and economic conditions in the
colonial period.
The author has now made many of these documents accessible
in a new edition. This edition was prepared by using the sheets of the
first edition, making large additions which are the result of investiga-
gations since that was published and inserting a very large number of
good photographic fac-similes.
The book is of great interest and should be in all collections of
American genealogy.
Genealogy of the Baskerville Family and Some Allied Families In-
cluding THE English Descent from 1266 A. D. By Patrick Ham-
ilton Baskerville, Richmond, Va. W. Ellis Jones' Sons Inc. 1912
pp. 214 with four illustrations and index.
This handsome and carefully prepared book was compiled by Mr.
Baskerville for distribution among the members of his family. It treats
of the Baskervilles, descended from John Baskerville of York County,
Va., a younger son of Thomas Baskerville of Old Withington, Cheshire,
the Hamiltons, Turners (of N. C), Watkins', Douglas, Dickenson, Boil-
ing, Barber, Norvell, Minge, Harrison, Eaton, Coleman, Embry, Gor-
don, Murray, Kennon, Worsham, Rolfe and others.
Of course most of these families are treated of only in their relation
to the main subject of the book. There is a large number of family
charts, and the whole work is very well done.
The Glengarry McDonalds of Virginia By Mrs. Flora McDonald
Williams. With an Introductory sketch of the early History
of the Glengarry clan, Louisville. Geo. G. Felter Company 1911.
pp. 340 with numerous portraits &c.
Angus McDonald, believed with good reason to have been of the
Glengarry family, was out in the "45", came to Virginia in 1746, settled
finally in Frederick Co., named his new home "Glengarry" and did good
BOOK REVIEWS 223
service as a commander against the Indians. His descendants have
been men of prominence, and as became their descent, have, been active
in all of our wars. Mrs. Williams has written an admirable family his-
tory which is greatly helped by the number of letters, diaries &c. of the
Civil War period to which she has access. Every McDonald above the
age of childhood was in the Confederate Army.
The McCues of the Old Dominion. Supplemented by Brief Charts
of the Steele, Arbuckle, and Cunningham Families. Compiled
by John N. McCue member of the Virginia Historical Society June
1912. Mo. Printing & Pub. Co. Mexico, Mo. pp. 272 with 57
portraits and other illustrations.
Another of our well known Scotch-Irish families is here treated
of in a very thorough and comprehensive way Mr. McCue has evidently
spared no pains to make his book as complete and accurate as possible.
Welsh Settlement of Pennsylvania. By Charles H. Browning, Phila-
delphia, W. J. Campbell, 1912, pp. 631, with 17 maps and illustra-
tions, and index.
Beginning in the year 1682 a considerable emigration of Quakers
from Wales to Pennsylvania took place.
This book exploits the chronicles and economic history of these
Welsh Friends (and, incidentally, of the Welsh Baptists, and other Welsh
American colonists, who removed in Colonial times to Perm's province),
and their families, ancestors and descendants; records of their land com-
panies, and of their plantations in the "Welsh Tract;" sketches of their
Meetings, monthly and preparative, and of their meeting houses (espec-
ially that of the Merion Prepararory Meeting); documentary accounts
of the adminstration of civil affairs in the "Welsh Barony;" the annals of
the Welsh townships, Merion, Haverford, Radnor, etc., the substan-
tiated story of the struggles between the Welsh Friends and William
Penn, and his representatives; memoirs of many early Welsh Friends,
etc., and it is such subjects that indicate the general scope of this work.
Discourse on the Lives and Characters of the Early Presidents and
Trustees of Hampden-Sidney College. Delivered at the Cen-
tenary of the Founding of the College, on the 14th day of June,
1876. By Hugh Blair Grisby, LL. D. President of the Virginia
Historical Society and Chancellor of the College of William and
Mary , Richmond. The Hermitage Press, 1913, pp. X, 46, with
several portraits.
The mingling of careful ^historical study with a great amount of
information derived from individuals and never before in print, which
gave such interest and value to Mr. Grisby's addresses on the Conven-
224 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
tions of 1776, 1788 and 1829, characterizes that which is now printed for
the first time. Mr. A. J. Morrison has again done good service to
Hampden-Sidney and to Virginia in publishing this address. It is pre-
faced by a life of Hugh Blair Grigsby, and contains portraits of various
presidents of the College.
JouRN.'VLS OF THE HousE OF BuRGEssES OF Virginia 1702-1705, 1705-1706,
1710-1712. Edited by H. R. Mcllwaine. [Va. State Library]
Richmond, Virginia, MCMXII, pp. XLIIII, 369, with index.
This splendidly printed series of Journals goes steadily on. They
have become so familiar to historical students that all that need be said
is that the high standard of the preceding volumes has been maintained
in this. The prefaces are, as usual, valuable contributions to the history
of the period covered by the Journals.
THE
Virginia Magazine
OF
HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.
Vol. XXI. JULY, 1913. No. 3
THE RANDOLPH MANUSCRIPT
Virginia Seventeenth Century Records
From the Original in the Collection of the Virginia Historical
Society
Commissions and Instructions to the Earl of Orkney for the
Government of Virginia
(Continued)
52. Provided always that no Person be discharged out ot
Prison who stands Committed for Debt for any decree of Chan-
cery or any Legal proceedings of any Court of Record.
53. And for the preventing any Executions that may be made
upon Prisoners, You are to declare Our Pleasure that no Baron
or Judge shall receive for himself or Clerks for granting a Writ
of Habeas Corpus more than Two Shillings and Six Pence and
the lilce Sum for taking a Recognizance and that the Provost
Marshall shall not receive more than five Shillings for every
226 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Commitment, One Shilling & three Pence for the Bond the
Prisoner is to Sign, One Shilling & three Pence for every Copy
of a Mittimus & one Shilling & three Pence for every Mile he
bringeth Back the Prisoner.
54. And further you are to Cause this our Royal Pleasure
hereby Signify'd to you to be made Publick & Register'd in
the Council Books of our said Colony.
55. And Whereas Commissions have been granted imto
Several Persons in our Respective Plantations in America for
the trying of Pirates in those Parts pursuant to the Act for the
more Effectual Suppression of Piracy and by a Commission sent
to our Colony of Virginia You as our Lieutenant and Governor
General of our said Colony are impower'd together with others
therein mention'd to proceed accordingly in Reference to Our
said Colony. Our Will and Pleasure is that in all Matters re-
lating to Pirates You govern yourselves according to the intent
of the Act and Commission aforemention'd. But as whereas
Accessories in Cases of Piracy beyond the Seas are by the said
Act left to be try'd in this Kingdom according to the Statute of
the twenty Eighth of King Henry the Eighth we do hereby fur-
ther direct and require you to send all such Accessories in Case
of Piracy in Our foresaid Colony into this Kingdom with the
Proper Evidences that you may have against them in Order
to their being Try'd here.
IT IS OUR FURTHER PLEASURE that no Person for
the future be sent as Prisoners to this Kingdom from our said
Colony and Dominion of Virginia without Sufficient Proof of
their Crimes, and that Proof transmitted along with the said
Prisoners.
56. In Case any Goods Money or other Estate of Pirates or
Piratically taken or brought or found within our said Colony
of Virginia or taken on board any Ships or Vessels You are to
Cause the same to be Seiz'd and Secur'd until You shall have
given us an Account thereof and receiv'd our Pleasure Concern-
ing the Disposal of the Same. But in Case such Goods or any
Part of them are Perishable the Same shall be Publickly Sold
and Disposed of, and the Produce thereof in like Manner se-
cur'd until our further Order.
THE RANDOLPH MANUSCRIPT. 227
57. You shall not Erect any Court or Office of Judicatory not
before Erected or Established nor dissolve any Court or Office
already Erected or Established without our especial Order : But
in Regard we have been inform'd that there is a Want of a par-
ticular Court for determining of small Causes You are to recom-
mend it to the Assembly of our said Colony that a Law be pass'd
(if not already done) for the Constituting such Court or Courts
for the ease of our Subjects there, and you are from time to
time to transmit to our said Commissioners for Trade and Plan-
tations an Exact Account of what Causes have been determin'd
what shall be then Depending, as likewise an Abstract of all
proceedings of the Several Courts of Justice within our said
Government.
58. You are to Transmit to Us & to Our Commissioners for
Trade and Plantations with all convenient Speed a Particular
Account of all Establishments of Jirrisdictions Courts Offices
and Officers Powers Authorities Fees and Priviledges Granted or
Settled within our said Colony to the End you may receive our
farther Directions therein.
59. COMPLAINT having been made that the Members of
our said Council in all Matters of Civil Right where any of
them are Defendants claim a Priviledge of Exemption from the
Ordinary forms of Process by Writ, so that they cannot be ar-
rested, and that it being the Practice in all such Cases that the
Secretary Summon them to an Appearance by a Letter, either
C'omply with the Same or Neglect it at their own Pleasure by
which Means the Course of Justice is obstructed & the Plaintiffs
\\ho are not of the Council are left destitute of relief. You are
therefore to take Special Care that according to the Order made
in the said Council of Virginia the 27 March 1678 (by which the
Members thereof claim 'd the Aforesaid Priviledge) a Letter of
Summons to any of the said Councelors Sign'd either by your
self or by the Secretary of our said Colony be deem'd as binding
and as Strict in Law for their Appearance as a Writ and that
upon their Neglect to Comply with any such Summons (Except
only in time of General Assembly) they be liable to the Ordi-
nary forms of Common Process.
228 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
60. And you are with the Advice and Consent of our said
Council to take Especial Care to regulate all Salaries and Fees
belonging to Places or Paid upon Emergencies that they be
within the Bounds of moderation and that no Exaction be made
upon any Occasion whatsoever, as also that Tables of all Fees
be Publickly himg up in all Places where such Fees are to be
paid and you are to transmit Copies of all such Tables of Fees
to Us & to Our Commissioners for Trade and Plantations as
aforesaid.
61. WHEREAS it is necessary that our Rights & Dues be
preserved and recover'd and that speedy and Effectual Justice
be administer'd in all Cases relating to our Revenue, You are to
take Care that a Covirt of Exchequer be call'd and do meet at
all such times as shall be needfull and You are upon your Arri-
val to inform us and our Commissioners for Trade & Planta-
tions whether Our Service may require that a constant Court of
Exchequer be Settled & Established there.
62. You are to take Care that no Man's Life Member free-
hold or Goods be taken away or harm'd in our said Colony
otherwise than by establish'd and known Laws, not repugnant
but as near as may be agreeable to the Laws of this Kingdom.
63. You shall administer or Cause to be administer'd the
Oaths appointed by Act of Parliament to be taken instead of
the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, and the Oath Men-
tion'd in the foresaid Act Entituled an Act for the Security of
Her Majesty's Person and Government and of the Succession to
the Crown of Great Britain in the Protestant Line, to the Mem-
bers and Officers of our Covmcil & Assembly and to all Judges
and Justices and aU other Persons that hold any Office or Place
of Trust or Profit in oiu- said Colony whether by Vertue of any
Patent under our Great Seal of this Kingdom or the Publick
Seal of Virginia or otherwise and you shall also Cause them to
make and Subscribe the aforesaid Declaration without the doing
of aU which you are not to admit any Person whatsoever into
any Publick Office, nor Suffer those that have been admitted
formerly to Continue therein.
THE RANDOLPH MANUSCRIPT. 229
64. You are to Permit a Liberty of Conscience to all Persons
except Papists, so they be contented with a quiet and peace-
able Enjoyment of the Same not giving Offence or Scandal to
the Government.
65. You shall send to us & our Commissioners for Trade and
Plantations by the Conveyance of our Ships of War, an Accotmt
of the present Number of Planters and Inhabitants — Men Wo-
men and Children as well Masters as Servants, Free and Unfree,
And of the Slaves in our said Colony as also a Yearly accoimt of
the Increase and decrease of them and how many of them are
fit to bear Arms in the Militia of our said Colony.
66. You shall also Cause an Exact Account to be kept of all
Persons bom Christened and Buried and you shall Yearly send
fair Abstracts thereof unto us and to Oiu" foresaid Commis-
sioners for Trade and Plantations.
67. You shall take Care that all Planters and Christian Ser-
vants be well and fitly provided with Arms, and that they be
listed imder good Officers and when and as often as shall be
thought fit Muster'd and Train'd whereby they may be in a bet-
ter readiness for the Defense of oiur said Colony and Dominion
under your Government, and you are to use your utmost En-
deavours that such Planters do each of them keep such Ntmibers
of White Servants as by Law Directed and that they appear in
Arms when thereunto required.
68. You are to take especial Care that neither the frequency
nor unreasonableness of the Marches Musters and Trainings be
an unnecessary Impediment to the Affairs of the Inhabitants.
69. And for the greater Secvuity of that Our Colony You
are to Appoint fit Officers and Commanders in the Several
Parts of the Country bordering upon the Indians who upon any
Invasion may raise Men and Arms to oppose them untill they
shall receive yoiu* directions therein.
70. You shall not upon any Occasion whatsoever Establish
or put in Execution any Articles of War or other Law Martial
upon any of Our Subjects Inhabitants of our said Colony of
Virginia without the advise and Consent of our Council there.
230 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
71. AND WHEREAS there is no Power given you by Our
Commission to Execute Martial Law in time of Peace upon
Soldiers in Pay and yet nevertheless it may be necessary that
some Care be taken for the keeping good Discipline amongst
those that we may at any time hereafter think fit to send into
our said Colony (which may properly be provided for by the
Legislative Power of the same) You are therefore to recommend
imto the General Assembly of our said Colony that (if not
already done) they Prepare such Act and Law for the Punishing
Mutiny Desertions and fake Musters, and for the better pre-
serving of good Discipline amongst the Said Soldiers as may best
Answer those ends.
72. AND WHEREAS together with other Powers of Vice
Admiralty You will Receive Authority from our Commissioners
for executing the Office of our high Admiral of great Britain
and of our Plantations upon the refusal or Neglect of any Cap-
tain or Commander of any of our Ships of War to Execute the
Written Order he shall receive from you for Our Service and the
Service of our Colony imder your Government, or upon his
Neglect & undue Execution thereof to suspend such Captain or
Commander from the Exercise of his said Office of Captain or
Commander and to committ into Safe Custody either on Board
his own Ship or elsewhere at Your Discretion in Order to his
being brought to Answer for such refusal or Neglect by Commis-
sion either imder Our great Seal of this Kingdom or from our
Commissioners for executing the Office of our high Admiral of
Great Britain for the time being And whereas you will likewise
receive directions from our said Commissioners for Executing
the Office of our high Admiral of Great Britain and of our Plan-
tations that the Captain or Commander so by you suspended
shall during such his Suspension and Commitment be succeeded
by such Commission or Warrant Officer of our said Ship ap-
pointed by our said Commissioners for Executing the Office of
our high Admiral of Great Britain for the time being as by the
known Practice and Discipline of our Navy does and ought next
to Succeed as in case of Death, Sickness or any other ordinary
disability happening to the Commander of any of our Ships of
War and not Otherwise You standing Accountable for the truth
THE RANDOLPH MANUSCRIPT. 231
and Importance of the Crime & Misdemeanor for which you shall
so proceed to the Suspending any such Captain or Commander
You are not to Exercise the said Power of Suspending any such
Captains or Commanders of our Ships of War otherwise than by
Vertue of such Commission or Authority from our said Commis-
sioners for executing the Office of our high Admiral of Great
Britain any former Custom or usage Notwithstanding.
73. You are to demand an Account from all Persons con-
cem'd of the Arms Ammunition and Stores sent to our said
Colony from our Office of Ordnance here as likewise what other
Arms Ammunition and Stores have been bought with the Pub-
lick Money for the Service of our said Colony and how the Same
have been employ'd, and whether any of them and how many of
them have been sold, Spent, Lost, Decay'd or dispos'd of and
to whom and to what use and to transmit the said Account to
Us and to our Commissioners for Trade and Plantations afore-
said.
74. You shall take an Inventory of all Arms Ammunition
and Stores remaining in any of out Magazines or Garrisons in
our Colony imder your Government, and immediately after
your Arrival to transmit the same unto Us and to our Commis-
sioners for Trade and Plantations and the like Inventory after-
wards half Yearly, as also a Duplicate thereof to our Master
General or Principal Officers of our Ordnance, which Accounts
are to express the Particulars of Ordnance Carriages, iPowder,
Balls, and all other Sorts of Arms and Ammunition in our Pub-
lick Stores at your said Arrival, and so from time to time of what
shall be sent you or bought v\4th the Publick Money and to
specify the time of the disposal and the Occasion thereof.
75. You are to take especial Care that fit Storehouses be
Settled throughout our said Colony for receiving and keeping of
Arms Ammunition and Publick Stores.
76. You shall cause a Survey to be made of all the Consider-
able landing Places and Harbours in our said Colony, and with
the Advice of our Council there Erect in any of them such
Fortifications as shall be necessary for the Security and Advan-
tage of that Colony which shall be done at the Publick Charges
232 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
of the Country, in which we doubt not of the Chearfull concur-
rence of the Inhabitants, thereunto from the common Security
and benefit they will receive thereby.
77. OUR WILL AND PLEASURE IS that aU Servants
that shall come to be Transported to Our Colbny of Virginia
shall serve their respective Masters for the Terms prescrib'd by
the Laws of our said Colony, and the said Servants shall at the
end of the said Term have 50 Acres of Land Assign 'd and set
out to every of them respectively to Have and to Hold to them
and every of them their Heirs and Assigns for ever imder the
Rules and Duties usually Paid and reserved.
78. AND WHEREAS it has been represented that the
Grant of King James the first heretofore made to that our Colony
to Exempt the Planters from paying Quitrents for the first Seven
Years did turn to the great Prejudice of the same and that many
took Occasion thereby to take and Create to themselves a
Title of such Quantitys of Land which they never intended to
or in truth cou'd Occupy or Cultivate but thereby only kept out
others who would have Planted and manured the Same, and King
Charles the Second having therefore by his Instructions given
to Sir W". Berkly revok'd all such Grants as contrary to the
Intention of the said King James the first and to the good of
our Subjects there We do likewise give the same directions unto
you, that if any Such Grants Shou'd be still Insisted on the
same be look'd on and taken to be void and of None Effect
And you are likewise to restrain the imlimited practice of
taking more Lands than can reasonably be Cultivated and to
regulate aU Abuses therein.
79. You shall with the Advice of Our Cotmcil there take
Care to appoint Men fitly Qualify'd to be Stu-veyors throughout
all the Several Districts of Our said Colony, and that they be
sworn to make true and exact Surveys of all Lands requir'd to
be set out according to the best of their Skill.
80. You shall likewise take Care that a General Survey be
made of all the said Colony and Dominion, and of each County
in it, and that an Exact Map or Maps be thereupon drawn, and
Transmitted to Us and to our foresaid Commissioners for Trade
and Plantations.
THE RANDOLPH MANUSCRIPT. 233
81 . And You are further to take Care that an Exact Account
be forthwith drawn of all Arrears of Quitrents due unto Us ex-
pressing from what Persons, for what Quantity of Land, and for
what time those Arrears are due, and likewise an Account Spe-
cifying what Particular Persons throughout all our said Colony
are possess'd above 20,000 Acres of Land a Piece, by what Titles
they hold the said Lands, and how much each of them is possess'd
of above that Quantity. Both which Accotints you are without
Delay to transmit to Us and to Our Commissioners for Trade
and Plantations.
82. WHEREAS it was represented to her Late Majesty by
the President and Coimcil of our said Colony that the Method
of Granting Lands as directed by the Instructions given to
Robert Himter Esq' bearing Date at St. James's the 30th of
April 1707 is not agreeable to the Laws Constitution and Prac-
tice of our said Colony. OUR WILL AND PLEASURE
THEREFORE IS That for the future the Method of Granting
of Land be in such form and Manner, and imder the like Con-
ditions Covenants and Reservations of Qtiitrent as are by the
Charter and Laws of that our Colony allow'd and Directed to
be made and as were permitted to be made before the In-
structions given to Robert Hunter Esq' as aforesaid, PRO-
VIDED due care be taken that in all such Grants hereafter to
be made regard be had to the profitable and unprofitable
Acres, and particularly that every Patentee be obliged in the
best and most Effectual Manner to Cultivate & Improve three
Acres part of every fifty Acres so granted within the term of
three Years after the Passing of such Grant and in Case of fail-
ure thereof such Grant or Grants to be void and of None Effect.
(To be Continued)
234 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
VIRGINIA IN 1676-77.
Bacon's Rebellion*
(Abstracts by W. N. Sainsbury, and copies in the McDonald and
De Jamette Papers, Virginia State Library.)
(Continued.)
Account of Tobacco Import
(Abstract)
June, 1676
The public account of the Impost of 2s per hogshead upon
tobacco exported from Virginia. — that is the Dr. accoimt being
the payments made thereof to the Governor of the Colony and
other Officers for Salaries &c. Total £2377 .6 .5. Copy Cer-
tified by Robert Beverley.
(Colonial Papers. 2 pp.)
Another copy is entered in Col. Entry Bk. No. 80. pp. 168-171.
Ship's Invoice
(Abstract)
July 20, 1676
Invoice of Goods and Servants aboard the Richard and
Elizabeth, Nicholas Pym, Master, for Virginia for the accoimt
of [Alderman] Richard Booth and Samuel Story of Sam:
Claphamson, William Hunt and William Paggen.
(Colonial Papers. 7. pp.)
*-Much valuable material for the history of Bacon's Rebellion has
already been published in this Magazine. For a list of these and other
published documents on this subject see the Appendix to "The Story of
Bacon's Rebellion." (New York, 1907).
VIRGINIA IN 1676-1677. 235
July-Aug., 1676
Warrants from Colonel Thomas Ballard* for pressing
MEN AND provisions FOR NATHANIEL BaCON's SERVICE
[Indorsed]
The several warrants bear date July 6, July 10, and August 25,
1676 which was near a month after Sir William Berkeley left
his house. Young was hanged for executing these warrants
and commanding the Company which he was compelled to by
Colonel Ballard, Colonel of the Coimty.
(Colonial Papers. 4. pp.)
King's Letter to ye Duke of York about Nathaniel Bacon
(Copy)
Charles R,
Most dear, and most entirely beloved brother, We greet you
well; It is not unknown to you that Nathaniel Bacon the
Younger, hath made himself the head & leader of a rebellion
in Our Colony of Virginia, highly to the Dishonour of Our royal
Authority and no less to the Detriment of Our good subjects in
that Colony besides the danger of the Example which, if not
suppressed and punished, may spread its infection into the
neighboring plantations; For prevention whereof & in Order
to the due chastisement of the Authors and abettors of those
traitorous and pernicious proceedings in our said Colony of
Virginia, We have thought fit to signify our pleasure imto you
that if the Said Nathaniel Bacon or any of his Accomplices or
abettors in that Rebellion, shall, for their safety or otherwise,
retreat or resort into Yo'' Colony and Territory of New York, or
into any part thereof, you cause them and every of them to be
forthwith seized & secured, and that immediate notice thereof
be then given to Our Governor or Deputy Governor of Virginia,
*-Thomas Ballard, of James City and York County, bom 1630, buried
March 24, 1689; for many years Clerk of York County. He was a Burgess
(or James City County, October, 1666-November, 1685; was appointed
member of Council, 1670, but was removed and became a member of the
House of Burgesses, of which he was speaker, 1680-82.
236 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
to the End such further course may be taken with them as the
law shall require in that case. So not doubting of Yo' Zeal and
Diligence in a matter so much conducing to the public peace
& the welfare of Our subjects, both in Virginia, and other Our
adjacent Colonys and Plantations. We bid you most heartily
farewell. Given &c. the last day of September 1676, in the
28th Year of Our reign.
To His Royal Highness the Duke of York, or Commander in
chief imder him of the Colony of New York in the West Indies.
By His Ma"" Comand
H. Coventry,
teste
W. Davis.
King's Letter to Lord Baltimore about Nathaniel Bacon
(Copy)
Right truly and Well beloved We
greet you well, It is not unknown
Charles R. to you since it hath so long since
come to our knowledge, that Na-
thaniel Bacon the yoimger hath made himself the head and
leader of a rebellion in our Colony of Virginia, highly to the
dishonor of Our royal Authority and no less to the detriment
of our Good subjects in that Colony. And as we make no ques-
tion but that you detest and (as much as in you lyes) have
opposed and will oppose, such traitorous and pernicious pro-
ceedings. So we have thought fit, at this time, to signify Our
pleasure unto you and hereby to reqiiire you that if the said
Nath'l Bacon, or any of his Accomplices, in that rebellion, shall,
for their safety or otherwise, retreat or resort into your Colony
of Maryland, or into any part thereof, you cause them and every
of them to be forthwith seized and secured And then give im-
mediate notice thereof to Our Governor or Deputy Governor
of Virginia, to the End such further course may be taken with
VIRGINIA IN 1676-1677. 237
them as the law shall require in that case. So not doubting
of Yo'' Zeal and diligence in this Our Service, so much conducing
to the public peace and welfare of Our subjects, as well in Our
said Colony of Virginia as in that of Maryland. We bid you
heartily farewell. Given &c the last day of September 1676 in
the 28th Year of Our reign.
To our right trusty and wdbeloved. Charles Lord Baltimore
proprietor of Maryland in the West Indies, or the Comander in
Chief under him in that Colony.
By his Ma*'*« Comand
H. Coventry.
Petition of Merchants of London and Bristol
(Abstract)
1676
Petition of Merchants of London, Bristol, Plymouth
&c. importing tobacco and sugars from Virginia and other
Plantations to the King. Set forth the inequalities of the
duties paid in England and Ireland upon tobaccos imported
from Virginia and pray for relief.
[Indorsed by Williamson, 1676.]
(Colonial Papers. 2 pp.)
Papers Concerning Gregory Walklett
(Abstract)
[End of 1676?]
"Entry of originall Papers concerning Gregory Walklett (*)
in Virginia." —
Only part of one letter to Walklett has however been entered
altho' there are many leaves left blank: — in reference to his
*-Af ter Bacon's death the remnant of his party was tinder command of
Joseph Ingram, with Gregory Walklett as second in command. They
soon surrendered to the Governor on condition that their lives be spared.
This was done, but by Act of Assembly they were forbidden to hold
any office in Virginia.
238 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
proposal to come into Gloster with a" good troop of horse and
arms, he is advised to bring them to Tindall's point and there
declare for the King's Majesty, the Governor and Country,
when he shall immediately be fetched on board to his Honoiir
(? the Governor of Virginia)
(Colonial Entry Book No. 81. p. 501.)
and he will find a considerable company of resolved men ready
armed to assist him, the writer of this letter amongst them.
Jan. 30, 1676-7
Humphrey Harwood to [the Commissioners for Virginia?]
Has sent up all the sheep belonging to John Leucas according
to their warrant and taken an inventory of the rest of his per-
sonal estate.
(Colonial Papers. 1. p.)
Sir John Berry to Sir John Werden.
(Abstract)
Feb. 2, 1676-7
Sir John Berry to Sir John Werden. The Dartmouth arrived
yesterday having lost company of the fleet of Merchant ships
in bad weather. Has received his Maj. Instructions by Capt.
Temple but hoped to be removed hence before the sickly months
of Jime, July &c. Sir W. Berkeley of opinion to keep the
Deptford Ketch till the arrival of his Maj. forces and the meet-
ing of the Assembly.
P. S. The Governor has upon second thoughts issued forth
this day the King's printed Proclamation and has expected 18
person whose names or crimes the Commiss" do not yet know.
(Mem. "This (P. S.) was designed to the Duke's Secretary,
Sir John Werden, but remanded.' ') 3 pp.
(Colonial Entry Book No. 81. pp. 36-38)
VIRGINIA IN 1676-1677. 339
(Abstract)
Feb. 21, 1676-7
Gov. Berkeley to Col. Moryson. Has received his letter
by Capt. Swann and will do as he requires him and consult with
the Assembly and not only with them but with the other Com-
mis". Thanks God he is so perfectly recovered that he hopes
to go for England with the first ship.
(Col. Entry Book No. 81. p. 73.)
(Abstract)
Feb. 24, 1676-7
Gov. Berkeley to Col. Moryson — Thinks all his Maj.
Commiss" of so high a quality that he writes and stiles Col.
Jeffreys and Sir John Berry Right Honorable who have not yet
taken it ill neither does Berkeley while he is the King's Governor.
For the word require truly he knows not whether it were desire
or not. — The Burgesses are not yet half met — the Northern &
those of Accomack being kept back by the weather to the
Governor's great charge. "Col. Moryson, my friend, I would
fain have you think me yours.' '
(Col. Entry Book No. 81. pp. 76-7.)
(Abstract)
Swann's Point, James City, Feb. 27, 1676-7
The Commissioners for Virginia to Thomas Watkins —
Desire, upon second thoughts, he will deliver Sec. Coventry's
letter, whose Province Virginia is, in the first place and advise
with him how much of its contents may be communicated to
the other Ministers.
The Assembly have bcgvin to sit and the Commissioners have
Ijrepared a letter to acquaint them with the cause and end of
their coming which they will send with Answer by next con-
veyance.
(Col. Entry Book No. 81. pp. 95-6.)
240 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
(Abstract)
Feb., 1676-7
The Commissioners for Virginia to the Council and
Assembly of Virginia. — ^As touching his Maj. desire for peace
with the Indians; the sole power of peace and war are only in-
herent to his Maj. Royal prerogative and it is therefore to be
understood that that part of the letter is not before the Council
and Assembly to judge or determine whether it be fit or no,
but to offer their best judgments as to what means shall safely
and honorably conduce thereto "and no further are you to con-
cern yourselves in this matter.' * As to the salaries of the Mem-
bers of Assembly, his Maj. Instructions are peremptory in that
particular they must be reduced so as to be no grievance to
the Country. These two Articles to be recommended partic-
ularly to the Governor as appertaining solely to his Province.
4 pp.
(Col. Entry Book No. 81. pp. 116-119.)
(Abstract)
Swann's Point, March 6, 1676-7
The Commissioners for Virginia to Governor Berkeley.
They find not only by former complaints but by Petitions this
day before them that several illegal seizures have been made
without any due conviction or attainder. Have more than once
protested against such unwarrantable proceedings and especially
for that there is no pretence or colour for such kind of practises
but rather of restitution — Reasons — Hope no more clamours of
this kind may surround them here nor pursue Berkeley home
to England to obstruct his and their proceedings for the
good of this cotmtry and give new occasions of more disturbances
among the people. 3 pp.
(Col. Entry Book No. 81. pp. 120-122.)
VIRGINIA IN 1676-1677. 241
Order of Privy Council in Regard to Money in England
Belonging to Virginia
On the 26th of June 1677 their Lo'p^ agree, upon a report to
be made His Ma*^ concerning Moneys raised & disposed of,
by the Assembly of Virginia as follows
The Right Hon'ble the Lord
Memorandum Privy Seal, is desired by the Lords
of the Committee for Trade and
Plantations to report, unto his Ma*^ in Council, that whereas
their Lordships have received informations from Virginia that a
very considerable Stun of Money raised there in the Years 16
and 16 and deposited in England for a Public Stock, to be
made use of for rewards and other expences to such as were
sent as Agents from the said Colony, for procuring a Charter
from his Ma*^ and other public uses, has been for the greatest
part thereof; by the late Admiralty (called while the Country
was yet remaining imder great distractions and imcapable of
making their elections after the usual manner) distributed and
disposed of by bills of Exchange, to uses which may prove less
agreeable to the intentions of the new Assembly, called by the
Present Governor. Their Lo'p^ are therefore most humbly of
opinion, that in regard the present condition of this Colony is
so miserable and necessitous, that the misapplication of so con-
siderable a sum of money, would be of very evil consequence
to his Ma*'*" affairs, and re-setlement of the Country, the Treas-
urers now in England, and other persons who, by their corre-
spondences and interests are nearly concerned herein, may be
called upon and examined concerning this matter; to the End
his Ma*y may be enabled to give such Orders, as to his Wisdom
shall seem meet.
The Sums of Money and Assingements are as follows, viz*.
Green Spring, April 2d, 1677
Honoured Gentlemen,
I am commanded as Clerk of the Assembly to acquaint your
Honors that there will be several Bills of Exchange drawn upon
242 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
you for satisfaction of the Public debts to the value of two
thousand eight hundred ninety five pounds, thirteen shillings
and ten pence. The persons to whom the money is due do im-
mediately require their bills and I suppose will send them for
England by the first ships. You will please to honoiir them
with acceptance and payment and according to the directions
of the Order of Assembly place the same to account.
What is in Col. Parks his hands according to his Letters and
accompt. to the Assembly will be drawn upon him; the rest
upon M' Secretary, for that Col. Morison hath informed, it
lyes in his hands.
I am most honored gentlemen
Your most humble servant
Robert Beverley, CI. Assemb.
77
teste
Wm. Davis.
At a grand Assembly begim at Green Spring.
February 20th, 1677
[Ordered]
That Major Robert Beverley, as clerk of the Assembly be,
and is hereby impowered, to draw Bills of Exchange upon M''
Secy Ludwell and Co'l Daniel Parke for such sums of money
as are ordered, to several persons by this Assembly. And that
all such Bills as he shall draw and subscribe, as Clerk aforesaid,
be punctually paid, according to the tenour of the same, by
M' Sec^ Ludwell or Co'l Daniel Parke out of the moneys in
their hands, belonging to the Country and they thereof dis-
charged accordingly. And that a copy of this Order, attested
by the Clerk of the Assembly and produced with the Bills
drawn, be sufficient advice of such bills and justification for
payment of the same.
Robert Beverley, CI. Assem.
teste
W. Davis.
The Copy of what I have formerly sent for advice by Capt°
Morris and Capt° Ransom. R. B.
VIRGINIA IN 1676-1677. 243
At a Grand Assembly begun at Green Spring the 20th Feb-
ruary 1676, these following Sums of Money were ordered to be
paid out of the Public Moneys in England — viz*.
£ s. d.
To Capt° George Purvis 4 0 0
To the Right Hon'ble S"" W-". Berkleyl g2g g jq
for disbursements J
ToCol.Augustin Warner for disbursem*' 13 11 11
To Capt'n John Martin 28 11 0
To Capt'n Tho: Gardner for expence ofl 50 0 0
Provisions (
To Major John Page for account of Al- 1^ 88 0 0
derman Jefferys j
To Capt" John Conset 5 5 0
To Capt° Tho : Laremer 50 0 0
To Capf^ Tho: Gardner 50 0 0
To M' John Clough 10...... 0 0
To Capt° Tho: Laremer for expence ofl 60 0 0
provisions j
To the R* Hon 'ble S^W"". Berkley Gov' 500 0 0
To Major William White 1 6 8
To Capt" Isaac Foxcroft. 28 0 0
To Col. Austin Warner..... 40 0 0
To Co'l Southy Littleton 61 9.- 3
To Mris Tabitha Brown 15 11 8
To M' John Page 40 17 6
To Co'l Geo. Jordan 36 0 0
To M' James Tubb 16 0 0
To Capt'' Daniel Juniper [Jenifer?] 24 2 0
To Major Isaac Alverton 28 16 0
To Major William Spencer 15 0 5
To Col. Southy Littleton for Hen: Wag-1 112 0
gaman j
To Rob* Beverley 100 0 0
To Major Gen'l John Custis 350 14 0
To Major William White 313 6 0
To Col' Tho: Ballard 14 11 7
244 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
40
80
. 0
- 0
- 0
0
2895...
5
. 13
. 0
.. 10
-. 0
2900...
. 13
.. 10
To Co'l Augustin Warner ...
To Co'l John Washington
Errors excepted
Rob* Beverley CI. Assemb 2895
To M'' Sam Wiseman, since the above s"^
orders
Tis possible, divers of those persons may assign their sums
due or part thereof, to others. Of which, shall give intimation
in the Bills of Exchange, when drawn. Please also to observe,
that by several Articles, there are several sums due, to the same
persons which may be included in one Bill of Exchange.
R. B. CI. Assem.
teste
W. Davis.
Whereupon his Ma*^ was pleased to order as follows, viz*.
At the Court at Whitehall 11th July, 1677
Present
The King's most Excellent Ma'ty in Council.
The R* Hon'ble The Lords of the Committee of this Board
for Trade, having this day reported, to his Ma}^ in Coimcil,
that they have received information from Virginia that a very
considerable sum of money raised there, in the years 1674 and
1675 and deposited in England, for a Public Stock to be made
use of for rewards and other Expences to such as were sent as
Agents, from the said Colony for procuring a Charter, from
His Ma*y and other public necessities hath been for the great-
est part thereof, by the late Assembly (called while the Country
was yet remaining under great distractions and uncapable of
making their Elections after the usual manner) distributed and
disposed of, by bills of Exchange, to uses, which may prove
VIRGINIA IN 1676-1677. 245
less agreeable to the Intentions of the New assembly, called
by the present Governor; It was upon consideration thereof,
and in regard the present condition of the said Colony, is so
miserable and necessitous that the misapplication of so con-
siderable a sum of money woiild be of very evil consequence,
to his Ma"^^ affairs and resetlement of the Country, Ordered
by his Ma*y in Council, that Tho. Ludwell Esq' and Col
Daniel Parke Treasurers for Virginia be, and they are hereby
required to attend the Board concerning the matter on Friday
next the 13th instant at ten of the clock in the Morning. And
that in the mean time the Treasurer and all other persons who
have in their hands any public Moneys of the said Colony,
do forbear to dispose thereof, notwithstanding any directions,
they have received from the Assembly of Virginia for that pur-
pose.
A true Copy
teste
W. Davis.
At the Court at Whitehall 13th July, 1677
Present
The Kings most Excellent Ma"^ in Council.
Whereas, it hath been represented to his Ma*^ in Council,
that a very considerable Stun of Money raised in Virginia in
the years 1674 and 1675 and deposited in England for a Public
Stock to be made use of for the Service of the said Colony hath
been for the greatest part thereof, by the late Assembly (called
while the Country was yet remaining under great distractions
and uncapable of making their elections after the usual manner)
distributed and disposed of by Bills of Exchange to uses which
may prove less agreable to the Interests of the New Assembly,
called by the present Governor. His Ma*^ taking the same
into consideration and designing that the Moneys so collected
and remaining in the Treasurer's hands shall not be employed
to any other ends, than such as shall most conduce to the ad-
vantage and settlement of that Plantation did order that Thos.
Ludwell Esq. & Co'l Daniel Parke Treasurers for Virginia be,
and they are hereby required to forbear to issue out or dispose
246 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
of, the said Public Moneys to any Person or Persons whatsoever
without receiving His Ma'''^^ Order in Council for the same.
A true Copy
teste
W. Davis.
(Abstract)
March 6, 1676-7
Petition of John Dean of James City County, Planter, to the
Commis'^ for Virginia. Confessing & repenting of his having
taken Bacon's Oath & that he has laid hold of his Maj. pardon
and praying remedy against Hartwell for seizing his whole crop
of tobacco. — With deposition on oath annexed.
(Colonial Papers. 2. pp.)
(Abstract)
Gov. Berkeley to the Commiss'rs for Virginia.
May 7, 1676-7
Has received their letter with some wonder for they tell him
no man's estate is to be seized for treason without conviction
which he knows is contrary to all the practise of all Christen-
dom— For this he appeals to the King & his Council & his learned
Judges of the Law — Besides this be was by when the King
seized the Estates of many that were in rebellion against him
without conviction. — Desires them to take a List of what he
has seized — The case of Alex. Walker different, he voluntarily
offered it — Has seized nothing since the King's Commiss"
came in and what is seized amounts not to the thirtieth part of
his lost estate — Shall give the King & his Council all their ad-
monitory letters to him.
(Col. Entry Book No. 81. pp. 123-4.)
(Abstract)
March 10, 1676-7
Petition of John Page in behalf of John Jeffreys to his
Maj. Commissioners for grievances — For payment of twenty
pipes of wine ordered by Sir W. Berkeley for his Maj. service at
the rate of £8 per pipe — with Order of Assembly thereon —
VIRGINIA IN 1676-1677. 247
and Opinion of said Commissioners referring same to his Maj.
consideration & justice.
(Colonial Papers. 3 pp.)
Copies of the above are entered in Col. Entry Book No. 80.
pp. 202-5.)
(Abstract)
Memorandum in Regard to Petition of Wm. Claiborne.
March 13, 1676-7
Mem. [by the King's Commiss" for Virginia] that the Pe-
tition of William Claiborne, senior, being presented to them
for a Grievance to be laid before his Maj . royal consideration ; —
they have given in the same separately as an affair which con-
cerns a whole peculiar Province and which has heretofore been
before his Maj. Royal Father and Privy Council, without any
decision being made therein — It is now again humbly tendered
to his Majesty to determine, and to remain under consideration
till such time as the persons concerned or some sent over by the
Pet" shall arrive to negotiate the same in England "which we
are not empowered or concerned to do."
(Colonial Papers.)
(Abstract)
March 13, 1676-7
Representation of the Colony and Assembly of Vir-
ginia— signed by W. Claiborne — to his Maj. Commiss" for
the settlement of Virginia in these troublesome times of Re-
bellion and General disturbances. In all time, since the dis-
solution of the Virginia Patent, they have received assurances
under the broad seal of England and many Declarations from
the then King that their estates should be consented and in no
sort prejudiced — During which time the petif Col. Claiborne
hath been resident in Virginia and enjoyed as a Councillor and
Secretary of State there, the benefits thereof. And by virtue of
Commissions under his Maj. Government & seal of Virginia
and by express directions from the Commissions under the
broad seal of England did discover and plant the isle of Kent —
From this time it continued under the government of Virginia
248 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
and men arrested at the isle of Kent for felonies &c. were re-
tiimed to appear at James City — but Lord Baltemore's officers
came & expelled us by force of arms several times and hanged
oiir men without trial or just cause given; they also took away
our goods, servants and cattle and displanted us at Palmer's
Island, out of their limits in Susquehanah river — All this they
did in spite of his Maj. commands to the contrary not to molest
us.
(Colonial Papers.)
(To be Continued)
VIRGINIA GLEANINGS IN ENGLAND. 249
VffiGINIA GLEANINGS IN ENGLAND
Communicated by Mr. Lothrop Withington, 30 Little Russell
Street, W. C. London, (including "Gleanings" by Mr. H. F.
Waters, not before printed.).
George Martin of Dublin Esquire, Doctor of Physicke.
Will 29 July 1746 ; proved 3 February 1755. To my sister Mrs.
Letitia Campbell £100 for herself and children. To John son
of my nephew John Gait deceased and 3 daughters of deceased
£200. To Mrs. Ann Tombe widow £5 and £1. Is. Od. each
Christmas for life and to her sister Mrs. Sarah Tombe £5. To
poor of Caple Street Meeting £5. To my relation and servant
Alexander Stewart of Woodtowne county Meath my interest
in lands of KUcoskin and £40 to stock the same. To Andrew
Stewart of Milltown £5. To neice Agnes Cunningham widow,
household goods in house she holds from me in Mary Lane
Dublin which I distrained for aiTears of rent and all rent she
owes me. To cousin Samuel Martin of London Esq and nephew
Samuel Campbell Esq £10 each. Lands in Milltown county
Meath, charged with £400 for children of my Brother James
Martin as follows, nephew John Martin £100, neice Agnes
Cimningham £200, niece Letitia Thomas £100, to be held in
trust by Samuel Martin and Samuel Campbell for my Brother
Colonel John Martin and his heirs. Executor: Brother John
Martin. Witnesses: Tho: Pageitt, Richd Thwaites, Ben:
Johnston, N. P.
Prerogative Court of Ireland
will book 1754-5 fo.
[Col. William Byrd describing his return from his "Progress to the
Mines" (Governor Spotswood's iron-works at Germanna) tells of a
night spent at the home of Col. John Martin, in Caroline County about
eight miles from Caroline C. H. and four miles from the Mattapony
River at Norman's Ford. During a long talk at night, says Byrd, "We
were forced to go as far as the Kingdom of Ireland, to help out our con-
versation. There, it seems, the Colonel had an elder brother, a physi-
cian, who threatens him with an estate sometime or other." That the
doctor kept his promise is shown by the will printed above. For a note
on Col. John Martin, see this Magazine XIII, 197-199.)
250 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Richard Chichester [late of Virginia beyond seas, deceased —
Probate Act]. Will 16 May, 1743; proved 15 March, 1745-6.
To Wife Ellen Chichester my Negro Wench, Barbara and Mo-
latto Girl Hannah, with their Increase, and my Negro Boy
Prince, likewise my Chair and Sorrel Horses belonging to it,
and my Horse Rover, and her Saddle and Furniture. Also to
my wife £500 Sterling out of Estate in England, also use of
Plantations where I live known by name of " Fairweathers"
with Stocks, use of eight working Negroes during widowhood,
and after her marriage or death, said Plantations, &c., to Son
Richard Chichester. To Son John Chichester my Plantation in
Lancaster County, known by the Name of "Newsoms" and
six good Negroes, Stock, &c. To my four Daughters, Elizabeth,
Ellen, Mary, and Hannah, each £500 sterHng at marriage or
age of 21, &c., also to each a Negroe to wait on them. To Son
John Chichester Black Stone Horse called "Potomack" and
my big Grey Colt "Jugler" (or Ingler), Household goods in
England to Sons John and Richard. All Plate, Rings, Clocks,
Jewells, &c. in England or Virginia to wife and children. If
wife with child, and a son to him at 21 £1,000, and if a daughter
£500, &c. To son Richard Chichester £500 sterling out of
Estate in England, to Son John Chichester, all Estate, real and
personal, in England. To Son Richard Chichester all Land,
Negroes, &c. in Virginia not disposed of, &c. To son John
Chichester his Estate at 21 . Executtrix : Wife Ellen Chichester.
Executor: Son John Chichester. Trustees: Joseph Carter,
Robert Mitchell, and Joss. Ball, Gentlemen, to manage for sons
John and Richard Chichester. Witnesses : Joseph Carter, Ann
Carter, Gawen Lawry, Michael Dillon. Proved in Prerogative
Court of Canterbury by John Tucker and Richard Tucker,
Esqrs., Attorneys for Ellen Chichester, widow, mother of
John Chichester, a minor, till of age. Administration 28
May 1763 to Richard Chichester brother and one of the
executors of John Chichester, deceased, the son and executor
of said Richard Chichester late of Virginia deceased, the
wife Ellen Chichester having formerly renounced and said
John surviving the testator but himself dying before taken
as executor and the grant to Richard Tucker and John Tucker
VIRGINIA GLEANINGS IN ENGLAND. 251
expiring by reason of John attaining 17 years. Administration 9
June, 1803 of Richard Chichester of Virginia, deceased,
to WilHam Murdock, as to administration (with will annexed)
of the son John Chichester, deceased, as to goods left unadmin-
istered by his brother Richard Chichester, also deceased,
for use of Sarah Chichester, Widow, relict and executrix of
will of said Richard Chichester, now residing in the County
of Fairfax in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United
States of America, Ellen Chichester, widow, having formerly
deceased, and administration to Richard Tucker and John
Tucker, Esqrs. having ceased by John Chichester having at-
tained seventeen years, &c.
Edmunds, 79.
[The Virginia branch of the ancient and wide-spread English family of
Chichester has been recently authoritatively traced to its English source.
At Raleigh, Arlington, Hall and elsewhere in Devon, and in Ireland, the
family was of note. A "History of the Chichester Family" by Sir A. P.
B. Chichester, Bart. (London, 1871) is in the library of this Society,
presented by Captain Arthur Mason Chichester of Leesburg, Va. An
account of the Virginia Chichesters may be found in Hayden's "Vir-
ginia Genealogies," pp. 91-95, 106-109. An abstract of the will of
Richard Chichester, the emigrant, (proved June 12, 1734, in Lancaster
County, Va.) is given on page 93.
Following is an account of the Widworthy branch of the family from
which the Virginia line came. It began with John Chichester, third
son of John Chichester, of Raleigh.
John Chichester, son of John Chichester of Raleigh and Johanna
Brett, inherited from his father the Manor of Widworthy. He married
November 6, 1538, Katherine, daughter of Thomas Piard of Taustock,
Devon.
John Chichester of Widworthy, eldest son of John Chichester and Kath-
erine Piard, buried at Widworthy, February 19, 1609. Will proved
Archdeacon's Court, 1609; married Doroth}^ daughter of Hugh Dau-
beney of Waxford, Somerset. Buried at Widworthy the 18th of Octo-
ber, 1598.
Hugh Chichester of Widworthy, eldest son of John Chichester and
Dorothy Daubeney, baptized at Widworthy June 7, 1573; buried Feb-
ruary 22, 1641 at Widworthy; married Martha, daughter of Richard
Duke, of Otterton, County Devon.
Richard Chichester, oldest son and heir of Hugh Chichester and
Martha Duke, baptized at Widworthy, June 13, 1600, died in his father's
life time, buried at Widworthy 17th of March, 1G3S; married Joan,
daughter of John Smithes of Kington, County Somerset; married at
Kington 22nd of May, 1625; buried at Widworthy 5th of August, 1643.
John Chichester of Widworthy, heir to his grand-father, Hugh, bap-
tized at Widworthy 11th of October, 1626, buried June 11, 1061; will
dated June 3, 1661; married Margaret, daughter of John Ware of Haller-
ton and Silverton, County Devon, and his wife Margaret, daughter of
Thomas Dart of Silverton.
252 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
John Chichester of Widworthy, eldest son of John Chichester and
Margaret Ware, born 1649, buried at Widworthy 25th of October, 1702.
Will dated 29th of April, 1693; married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward
Court of Lillisdon, buried at Widworthy, December 7, 1711. Had no
issue.
Richard Chichester, second son of John Chichester of Widworthy and
Margaret Ware, bom at Silverton tlie 5th of March, baptized the 16th
of March, 1657; married Anna — ; came to Virginia in 1702, bringing with
him his son John. He married a second wife in Virginia, Anna China
nee Fox; bought lands in Lancaster County. Will dated April 14, 1734.
John Chichester, son of Richard Chichester and Anna — , baptized at
Widworthy, May 10, 1681, died in Virginia, 1728. Married Elizabeth
Symes of Dorset, England, buried at Powerstock, Dorset, January,
1728.
Richard Chichester, son of John Chichester and Elizabeth Symes,
died in England, December 30, 1743, buried at Powerstock, January 3rd.
Married July 3, 1734, Ellen Ball, daughter of Col. William Ball and Han-
nah Beale, and lived at "Fairweathers," Lancaster County, Virginia.]
William Williamson [of St. Mary, Whitechapel, Middle-
sex-Probate Act Book] of London, Merchant. Will 10 Feb-
ruary 1722-3; proved 24 February 1722-3. To be buried
with my parents in Foulford Church Yard, County of York,
under a plaine Stone with only my name and age engraven, for
such interment £100 to be laid out, and if not laid out residue
to poore of Foulford. "Item. I order and Direct that all my
just Debts be fully paid and Satisfied. Item. I give, devise,
and bequeath unto William Welch, Natural Son of Susamiah
Welch, of Nancemond County in Virginia, widow, all my right,
title, and Interest at, in, or to one Stone house. Situate and be-
ing in Hampton Town in Elizabeth Citty and County in Vir-
ginia, with land, &c., now supposed to be in possession of Ed-
ward Kearney, being recorded in said County Court and my
Title in hands of said Edward Kearney. Also to said William
Welch £100 to be put out at interest by my Executor in Great
Britain and profits paid annually to Virginia till he is 21, &c.,
but if he die said legacy to my Sister Annoball Newhan of Foul-
fard. Widow, her son Jonas Annobell, her Daugthers Alice and
EUinor, Annaball, &c. To my god son Francis Robinson £10
to be paid to his father John Robinson of London, Gentlemen.
To said John Robinson and his present wife Frances £10 apiece.
To George Capper of London, Sadlier, and wife Ellen, ditto.
To Elizabeth Newnham of London, Spinster, ditto. To my
Nephew William Stavele, of Foulforth aforesaid, all my Garden
VIRGINIA GLEANINGS IN ENGLAND. 253
and Tract in Lordship of Gate Foulforth known by name of
Dilwod Croft, £ 100 at 21 , &c. And if he dies to his brother, &c.
To Sister Rebecca Patrick of City of York, Widow, £100. To
my Niece Elizabeth Wade £100.
Richmond, 41.
Peter Hooker of London, Tallow chandler intending to
voyage to Virginia in the good shipp called the Globe of London.
Will 6 August 1636; proved 22 November 1639. To the poor
of Chilcombe cotmty Southampton 20s. To my Aimt Stroud
£5 out of my adventure. To my imcle Egers children 20s.
a-piece out of my Adventure. To my Cosen Anne Hooker my
tmcle Richard's daughter £3 out of Adventure. To her brother
Richard 40s. To Henry Hooker my imcle Peter's son 40s. at
21 years. To his brother Nicholas the like sum. To Sibell
Hooker my imcle Peter's daughter 20s. To Richard Wood's
children Hannah, John and Samuel 20s. apiece. I give to my
brother John Hooker all my goods that I left in his hands and
£30 to be paid out of my Adventure. If my brother John die
before the legacy is due to be paid then to his son John Hooker.
If both hap to dye then to my executor or his children. I con-
stitute my beloved brother Edward Hooker my executor to
whom I bequeath the residue of my Estate. I intreate my uncle
Edward Hooker and my cosen John Wood to be my Overseers
to them 10s apiece for to buye a paire of gloves.
Witnesses : Edwd Hooker, Richd Potter, George Stratton.
Harvey, 187.
Robert Dinwiddie, Esq. formerly of Colony of Virginia
in North America, but late of the City of Bristoll, Esq., deceased.
Will proved 9 October 1770— Probate Act Book.
254 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
COUNCIL PAPERS 1698-1700.
(From the original volume in the Virginia State Library)
(continued)
Order in Regard to Letters of Denization
At the Court at Kensington
s.s. .the 18th of January 1699
Present
The Kings most Excellent Maj*'^ In Council
Upon Reading this Day at y« Board a report from M"" Attor-
ney & M"" Solicitor Generall In y** words following.
May it Please yo^ Maj''^
In Obedience to their Excellencies y'^ Lords Justices ord"" of
reference in Councill the 3*^ of Novemb"" 1698, Wee have Consid-
ered of y'' anexed representation of y'' Councill of Trade and thee
papers thereunto anexed relateing to y'' granting of Letters of
Denization by y*^ Governors in y*' plantations, and by y*^ presi
dents Shewed unto us wee find y*" usall Method of granting Deni-
zation in the plantations hath been by Acts of Assembly of w''^
Sev'll Instances have been Shewed to us. Viz* By an Act passed
In y« Gen'll Assembly of y'^ Province of Maryland y'' 10th of
June 1697 Stephen ffrancis an Italian and George Slaumbe a
German were Naturalized and thereby Vested with all y^ Rights
and Privileges of naturall born Subjects of y*^ province and y*
there by another act passed in the Same Assembly y'" 30th of
March 1698, one Peter Dowdee a frenchman was in Like manner
Naturalized But in both the said Acts there is an Express pro-
visoe y* they Shall not be Constructed to Enable or qualify y^ s"^
Persons to hold or enjoy any place office Calling or Employ-
ment prohibited by an Act of Parhamcnt jnade In y^ 7''' & 8'''
COUNCIL PAPERS. 255
Years of your Maj*' Reign for preventing frauds and regula-
ting Abuses in y^ Plantations trade or any other Statute Law
In England.
And Wee Likewise find that in November 1697, Coll: Benja-
min ffletcher then Gove"" of the Pro\'ince of New York Did
Grant Letters of Denization und"" y^ Seale of y* s"^ Province
unto one Arnold Nodine a Foreigner in which Grant there is a
Clause to Enable y^ s'* Nodine to take & hold Lands Tenem**
hereditam*^ &c. to himself his heirs and Assignes In fee Simple
w*** power to Sue and be Sued, and to enjoy all other rights and
Priviledges as a naturall bom Subject of y* Province w*'' out any
Restriction or regard to y^ s"* Act of Navigation or any other
Statute of England, But wee do not find y* y* s'* Coll : ffletcher
had any Express power by his Comissions to grant any Letter
of Denization.
And Wee are humbly of Opinion y* y^ Gov" of y« plantations
ought not to grant Letters of Denizations unless they were Ex-
pressly Authorized So to do by their Comissions and y' noe
Acts of Denization or Naturalization in any of y^ plantations
will qualifie any person to be master of a ship w*'' in any of y*
Statutes made in this Kingdom w"^ require masters of Ships to
be Englishmen.
All which is most humbly Submitted
to yo"" Maj^' Royall Wisdom.
Tho: Trevor
Jno Hawles
His Maj''^ in Councill approveing y^ representation Is Pleased
to ord"" y* Letters of Denization be not Granted by any of y«
Gover" of his Maj*'* Plantations otherwise then according to y*
Opinion of M' Attumy and M^ Solicitor Gen 11 Sett forth in
their s** report and the Lords Comissioners of Trade and Plan-
tations are to give notice of his Maj''^ Pleasure herein to y*" Re-
spective Gov" of his maj''* plantations'accordingly —
John Povey
A true Copy Examined by y^
Originall in y*" hands of y*' L**"
Com" for trade and Plantations
Wm. Popple.
256 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
1699
White hall ffeb'ry y« 16*^^
S' 1700
His Maj"^ having been pleased by ord'' In Council of y^ IS*''
of Jan'ry Last, to require us to Signifie his pleasure unto y^
respective Gov" of his plantations America relateing to y^ grant-
ing of Letters of Denization by y^ s** Gov" in y® s"^ plantations
wee Send you here inclosed a Copy of y® s*^ ord"' for yo"^ Direction
and Goverment in y'' behalfe So bid you heartily farewell.
Yo"" very Loveing fifriends
Stamford
Lexington
Ph: Meadows
WiUiam Blathwayt
John Pollexf en
Abr. Hill
George Stepney.
Order in Regard to a Pirate
ffeb'ry 2V^
1699
1700
A Letter having been Comunicated to us from one Henry
Mimday Comand"" of a merch*^ Ship Called y® John Hopewell
of London, to his owners dated upon y® Coast of Guinea in
Novemb'' Last wherein he gives an account of his haveing been
plundered by a Pyrate named Henry King who formerly used y^
Pen Silvania trade and of nine of his owne men haveing forsaken
him and run away w*** y^ s"^ Pyrate wee Send you here inclosed
a List of their names y* if any of y'm happen to Come into your
Goverm* you may Cause y'm to be apprehended and take Such
Care for bringing y'm to Condign punishment as by his Maj''°
has been directed.
Memd'm
Coll. Nicholson
The name of the Pyrate v;*'^ is mentioned is Henry King.
COUNCIL PAPERS. 257
and ye names of Nicholas Gillefrand, John
M'' Munday's Burton, Leonard Rawlings,
men y* went w*^** Edward Arterberry, Emanuel
y® Pyrate are : a Portugeze, John Sanders,
Wm. Parker of Sunderland,
John Harris of London, ffrancis
Brown a negro.
Secretary Vernon to Governor Nicholson.
Whitehall June 29'^ 1700
S'
The Duke of Shrewesbury having obtained his Ma'^^ Leave to
resigne his Office of Lord Chamberlaine of his Ma'*' Houshold,
by reason of his want of health to attend y* same, His Maj *** has
been pleased to conferr y* Office on y« Earl of Jersey His Ma'*
not haveing yet appointed One to Succeed in the Place of Secre-
tary of State, It will be my Part in the interim to correspond w**^
you in what may relate to y* Service of his Maj*'^ & the PubHck.
In the Discharge whereof I shaU upon all Occasions endeavour
to assure you that I am
S'
Y' most faithfull
himible servant
Ja Vernon
Coll: Nicholson.
Lords of the Admiralty to the Governor of Virginia.
Admiralty Office 21"^ June 1700
S'
You will herew"* receive sevrall passes to be disposed of as
y* inclosed Instruccon from my L**' of y* Admiralty direct for
y* secureing of Ships & Vessells of his Ma''*" Subjects from y*
Algerines, and for yo"" better guidance how to fill up y* Blanks
in y* s"^ passes I send you one of y'm so filled up for a Sample
258 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
You will alsoe receive in y^ box w*^ y* passes sevrall Oathes
& bonds some of w*''' Oathes are for English built Shipps & y«
rest for forreigne built Ships made free & part of y® bond are for
Ships trading Coastwise in y^ plantacons the other for such as
trade from y* plantacons to Europe, Samples of w"** Oathes &
bonds w*** y^ Blanks filled up I send you for yo'' guidance in y«
doing thereof before you fill up or deliver y* passes.
And whereas you will find by y^ Instructons that a Registary
must be sent to this Office of all passes delivered out by you, I
send you likewise a Scheme shewing in w* manner y« s*^ Registry
is to be kept I desire you'll owne y* receipt thereof & remaine.
S'
Yo"' most humble Serv*
Burchett
To y^ Govern'' of Virg'a.
By y* Com" for Executeing y*" Ofhce of L'' High Admiral of
England, Ireland &c.
Instructions to ffrancis Nicholson, Esq' Govemoiir of Vir-
ginia, our Vice Admirall, and to the Govemour or Comander
in chief e there for the time being.
Whereas his Maj*^ by his Order in Councill Dated y*' 6*^ of
this present Moneth of June hath been pleased to direct that
Passes shall be sent to y^ respective Govemours or Comanders
in Chiefe of his Plantations & to y* Collectors of his Customes in
such Plantations in America as are under proprietors & Charter
Govemm*^ as also to y* severall Consvds in Portugal, Spaine *
Italy in order to their being distributed by y'm from time to
time to such Ships & Vessells of his Maj*'"^ Subjects as shall be-
long to these Plantacons or Governments respectively, or come
into y^ Ports of the afores*^ Kingdomes for securing them from y*
Ships of Algiers. Wee do therefore herew*^^ send you sevrall of
y* s*^ passes & direct & require you to goveme yourselfe in the
disposall of y* same & such others as shall from time to time be
sent you according to y' rules hereafter prescribed, (viz*.)
P* The aforesaid Government of Algiers having given no
longer time than to September next for all Shipps belonging to his
Maj"*^ Subjects their being provided w*'' Passes & declared that
such as shall be mett w*'' bv their Cruisers without Passes after
COUNCIL PAPERS. 259
that time shall be carried up & their Goods confiscated. You are
therefore imediately upon yo"" receipt hereof, to give notice of y'
same to all persons concerned w**" in the District of yo' Govemm*
that so they may take care to provide themselves with passes for
security of their Tracfe & Navigation, not only from his Ma*'^'
Plantations to Europe, but from one plantation to another, and
accordingly You are to deliver Passes to all such Shipps & Ves-
sells as shall appear to you to be qualified to trade.
2 — That you are to take care that no such Pass be given for
any Shipp or Vessell, imless you are satisfied that she is at the
same time in some port, or place within the District of yo'
Government.
3 — Nor is any such Pass to be given, untiU y^ Master of y*
Shipp or Vessell for which it is demanded has made Oath, eithe^
before yo''selfe or some person within yo'' Govemm*, who has
power to administer y* Same, that he hath no other Pass, or
in case he has any, untill such former Pass be delivered up.
4 — And before y^ Delivery of any Pass every Master is to
give Bond to you for his Maj''^^ use, with one good Surety in y*
sume of one hundred pounds Sterling Penalty if the Shipp or
Vessell appeare to be above one hundred Tuns for the rctume
& delivery of his Pass to y^ L** high Admirall, or Com" for Exe-
cuteing y« Office of Lord high Admirall for the time being, or to
yo*" selfe or some other person entrusted w*** the delivering out of
Passes within the time, or according to the other Conditions
exprest in the following Article — And for yo' better guidance
herein, wee send you Termes of Severall printed Bonds &
Oathes, with one of each kind shewing in what manner they are
to be filled up.
5 — That y^ Passes for all Shipps entring Outwards in any of
his Maj*'''^ Plantations Coastwise, or for any other of his Ma*''*'
Plantations do continue in force for one year and no longer;
and all passes for Shipps entring Outwards, in y* s^ Plantations
for Africa, or Europe are to determine either at y" Expiration
of One yeare, or upon their retume & being unloaden in any of
his Maj'''^" Plantations or their arrivall, & being unloaden in
some part of England, Wales or Berwick upon Tweed according
as it shall first happen. And the aforementioned Bonds are to
260 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
be filled up for the delivering up of y« s*^ Passes at the expiration
of such Terme or Voyage accordingly, with a Saveing to the
Master & others concem'd in case of Capture or Shipwreck.
And whereas it may so happen that a Shipp or Vessell receiveing
a pass from y® Govemour or Comander in Cheife of any of
his Maj"®^ plantations, or other person intrusted with the de-
livery of passes may not have opportimity of delivering up that
pass to y* person from whom he rec'd the same, & gave Bond
to, in case the said pass shall be delivered within the time limit-
ted by the aforegoing Article to any other person, who is appoin-
ted to deliver out passes the s^ person is to give a Certificate to
the Master of y* Ship or Vessell that he had returned y« pass to
him, upon proceeding of which Certificate to y® person to whom
y« Bond was given, the s^ Bond is to be delivered up And you
are accordingly to take notice of & to cause it to be put in Execu-
tion as far forth as it relates to you.
6 — ^You are to take particular Care that a perfect Register be
kept by you of every pass you deliver out, in pursuance of y®
aforegoing Directions according to y^ Scheme hereimto annexed.
Transcripts of w'^^ Register you are quarterly to transmitt to
this Office in Order to y* makeing up one entire Register & Al-
phabett of passes given out from his Majestyes plantations.
7 — ^And it being his Maj*'^^ pleasure, that for y^ better pre-
venting any indirect use, or Misapplication of y^ s"^ passes, y°
Govemours, Comanders in Cheife & Collectors in y^ sevrall
plantations (mencioned in y« paper hereimto annexed) shall by
every oppertunity comunicate to each other y^ like Trans-
cript of y* Registers of passes. You are to take care to comply
with the same accordingly.
8 — And his Maj*'^° having further declared his pleasure that
these passes shall be delivered gratis, & y* neither the Masters
or Owners of such Ships or Vessells as receive y^ same, shall be
put to further Charge on any consideration whatsoever, than
that of twelve pence for each as his Maj"" due for the Stamp,
You are to take perticular y* y^ same be strictly complyed with
and to demand from y« Masters of all such Ships & Vessells,
who shall receive Passes from you, as often as you do deliver y®
same to them, one shilling for y'^ Stamp for his Maj*'®* use, and
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transmitt an accoxint thereof from time to time to our Secretary,
and you are also to take effectual care for sending y® s^ money
by all convenient oppertimities to this Office.
Lastly — You are likewise further required to give us early
Notice from time to time, when it may be necessary-- to send unto
you supplys of passes that so y® same may be dispatched to you
accordingly, & y^ Trade of his Maj*'*^^ Subjects not be exposed
for want thereof.
Dated at the Admiralty Office this 2pt day of June 1700.
J Bridgwater
Haversham
D Mitchell
Geo: Churchill
By Comand of their Lords'pp^
J Burchell
By the Comissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High
Admirall of England.
Suffer the Ship Providence of Virginia whereof James Wood is
Master, Burthen about One Hundred Tons, mounted with Six
Gvms and Navigated with Twelve men. Eight his Maj*'^^ Sub-
jects English built. But if a fforreign built Shipp it must be said
ifoireign built made free, to passe with her Company, Passen-
gers, Goods and Merchandizes, w'^'out any Lett, hindrance.
Seizure or molestation ; the s*^ Shipp appearing unto us by good
testimony to belong to the Subjects of his Maj''«, and to no
fforreigner
Given imder our hands & y^ Scale of our Office of Admirall
at Whitehall y'' Tenth day of June in the year of our Lord One
thousand Seven hundred.
To all persons whom these
may conceme.
By Comand of their Lord'pps.
James Wood of Virginia Marriner and Master of the Ship
called the Providence of Virginia now at Anchor there maketh
Oath before A. B. Govcmour of his Maj''^^ Colony of Virginia
That the said Ship called the Providence of Virginia Burthen
262 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
One hundred Tuns, more or less, mounted with Six Guns, and
Navigated with Twelve men, whereof Eight are his Maj*'^'
Subjects & four Strangers, is bound for England and that he is
appointed the Sole Master for the said Voyage, and knows no
other Master, is an English buUt Ship and doth belong to the
Inhabitants of Londone and other places in the Dominions of
his Majesty of Great Britain. And further saith, That the said
Ship was never called by any other Name, and that he never
had a former Pass for her.
Or if called by any other name it must be filled up thus —
And that the said Ship was formerly called y^ Adventure, and
that the last Pass he rec'd for her is returned to the Govemour
of Virginia.
Jurat. That the Contents abovesaid
are true to the best of his knowledge,
Coramme
Oath of a Master of an English-built Ship
James Wood of Virginia Mariner and Master of the Ship
called the Providence of Virginia now at Anchor there maketh
Oath before A. B. Govemour of his Maj*'«^ Colony of Virginia
That the said Ship called y"* Providence of Virginia, Burthen
about One hund^ Tons more or less, mounted w*'' Six Guns, and
Navigated with Twelve men, whereof Eight are his Maj*'*^ Sub-
jects, and ffour Strangers, bound for England, and whereof he
is appointed the Sole Master for the s'l Voyage, and knows of
no other Master, is a fforreign built Ship — made ffree, and doth
wholly belong to the Inhabitants of London and other places in
the Dominions of his Majesty of Great Britain. That the said
Ship was never called by any other name, and that he never had
a former passe for her.
Or if called by any other name, it must be filled up thus.
And that the s^ Ship was formerly called y^ Adventure, and
that y® last pass he rec'd for her is returned to the Govemour
of Virginia.
That the said Ship was never called by any other name, and
that he never had a former passe for her.
COUNCIL PAPERS. 263
And that the s*^ Ship became English Propriety as by Certifi-
cate from S"" John Shaw, Baron*' Collector of the Customes
dated the 25*^ June 1689 does appeare.
Jurat, That the Certificate of the
freed ome of this Shipp produced
and the Contents af ores'*, are true
to the best of his knowledge
Coram me
Oath of a Master for a ffree Shipp,
[There follows, in Latin, some bond, about which, in English,
is the following condition.]
The Condicon of this Obligation is such. That whereas the
above bound James Wood hath rec'd a Pass from A. B. Gover-
nour of his Maj*'*"^ Colony of Virginia for the good Ship called
the Providence of Virginia and whereof he the s** James Wood is
Master, bearing date, w*"* these p'sents, Now if the s** James
Wood shall deliver or cause to be delivered up the s** Pass to
the Secretary of the Admiralty, or to the Govemour of Virginia
for the time being or any other person entrusted w*** y* delivery
of Passes, in any of his Maj''^' Plantations or elsewhere, either
at the Expiration of One year from the date hereof, or upon the
Shipps', retume, & being unloaden in some part of England,
Wales, or Town of Berwick upon Tweed, or her arrivall or being
unloaden in any of his Maj*'^- Plantations, unless she shall
happen to be taken by pirats, or be Cast away & Shipwrecked;
Then this Obligation to be void & of more effect, or else it shall
remaine in full force 8c virtue.
Sealed & delivered
in the p''sence of [Blank]
Bond for a Ship or Vessell entring Outwards in y' Plantations
of Africa or Europe.
[Latin]
The Condicon of this Obligacon is such. That whereas the
above bound James Wood hath rcc'd a Pass from A. B. Govern'
264 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
of his Maj*'*^ Colony of Virg'a for y® good Ship called the Provi-
dence of Virginia & whereas he y® s*^ James Wood is Master bear-
ing date w**" these p'"sents Now if y^ s*^ James Wood shall deliver
or cause to be delivered up y* s^ Pass to y'' Govemour of his
Maj*'^" Colony of Virg'a for y^ time being or any other person
entrusted w*"" y^ deliv'y of Passes in any of his Maj*'^' Planta-
tions, at the Expiration of One year from y^ date hereof, imless
the Ship shall happen to be taken by Pirats or be Cast away &
Shipwrecked : Then this Obligation to be void and of none Effect;
or else it shall remain in full force & virtue.
Sealed and delivered
in the p'sence of [Blank]
Bond for a Ship or Vessell entring outwards in the Planta-
tions Coastwise or for any other of his Maj*'®' Plantations.
[Form of the Registry for Passes on separate sheet]
An ace* of the Several! Plantations to which Passes are Sent.
Jamaica Virginia New Hamshire.
Barbadoes Maryland
Leew*^ Islands New York
Bermudas Massachusetts Bay
Plantations under Proprietors & a Charter Govemmn*.
Bahama Islands East & West New Jersey
Carolina Connecticut
Pensilvania Rhoad Island
Instructions in Regard to Trials.
Whitehall Aug* the P* 1700
S^
Their Excellencies the L*** Justices having by Order in Coun-
ciU of y^ IS*'' of July last, required us to signify their pleasure
unto the respective Govemours of his Maj"^^ Plantations in
America, as well such as are granted in Propriety as such as are
Governed by Comission from his Maj*'^ relateing to the method
of proceedings in the severall Courts upon Tryalls of all sorts of
Causes in the s^ Courts in those parts respectively, wee send
COUNCIL PAPERS 265
you here inclosed a Copy of the s*^ Order, that you may observe
the same in transmitting to us the ace* thereby required, with
relacon to his Maj*'*' Province of Virginia as soon as possible.
So we bid you heartily farewell.
Yo' very Loving Friends
Ph: Meadows Ab^ Hill
John Pollexfen Geo: Stepney
M Prior.
Coll. Nicholson.
At the Councill Chamber at Whitehall the 18»»> day of July
1700.
s. s. Present
Their Excellencies the Lords Justices in Councill.
It is this day Ordered by their Excellencys the Lords Justices
in Councill that directions be sent to y® respective Govemours
of his Maj ''^* plantations in America, as well such as are granted
in Propriety, as such as are Governed by Comission from his
Majesty, to transmitt an ace* to y* Lords Comissioners for
trade & plantations in the most perticular manner, of y°
method of proceedings in the severall Courts upon Tryalls of
all Sorts of Causes in the s^ Courts, in those parts respectively:
and that the same be comunicated by their Lords'pps to this
Board, for his Maj*'^' better information in the determining of
Appeales from y^ plantacons; And the Lords Com""* for Trade
8c plantations are to signifie their Excellency's pleasure herein,
to the s"^ respective Govemours accordingly.
Signed.
John Povey
A true Copy
Wm. Popple,
ffor his Maj''"' especiall Service.
For the hon'ble Francis Nicholson Esq"" his Maj*'*" L* &
Govern "■ Genrall of his Maj*'*"* Colony of Virginia in America,
Or for y" Comander in Chief e of that Colony for the time
being.
Virginia
266 virginia historical magazine.
Board of Trade and Plantations to the Governor of
Virginia
Whitehal. Aug* the 2P* 1700
Sir
We have rec'd yo' Letter of the 10"" of June last, with many
Papers therein mentioned and referred to.
We congratulate the Success you have had in yo'' late Enter-
prize against the Pirats ; And take this occasion to tell you that
wee hope that all difficulties that might arise about the Conduct
of the Governors of any of his Majesties Plantations towards
Piratts will hereafter be in great measure removed, by an Act
past here the Last Session of Parliam' for the more Effectuall
Suppression of Pyracy, And the Comissions w*^"^ are now pre-
paring to be sent thither in pursuance of y^ s'^ Act, not doubting
but the same will also be very Effectuall towards the Suppres-
sion of Pyracy as intended.
What you write concerning Navigation Bonds (w'=^ we take
to be much what y^ same Case in Virginia as in Maryland) is
proper for y^ consideracon of the Com" of the Customs, & by
them to be laid before y^ L"*^ Comission" of y'^ Treasury from
whom all Directions in matters relateing to his Maj"^« Revenue
must come; and there are many other things in yo"" s*^ Letter
w"^ belong to y^ Care of y^ Lords Com" of y^ Admiralty, &
others to other Offices concerning w'''^ you have not observed
y" advice and the reason of our so advising w"^ we gave you in
Ours of y^ 4*'' of January last, and have thereby left us doubtful
whether it were necessary for us to Comunicate y^ Copies of
what we receive from you unto them, or what else might be
fit for us to do therein, w'^'' inconvenience we therefore againe
intreat you for y® future to prevent.
The Care you promise in advancing his majesties Revenue, &
y** hopes you express of being able in a year or two to Build a
house for his Maj*'^^ Governor are very acceptable things, and
as we doubt not of yo"" endeavours therein we hope they will
accordingly prove Successfull.
We are glad also to Observe that you were taking care about
the Revisal of the Lawes of Virg'a according to what we Ex-
plained to you of the Sence of his Maj*''^' Instruccon ab* that
COUNCIL PAPERS. 267
matter, in our aforesaid Letter of y' 4*^ of January; And hope
we shall accordingly e're long receive them so Revised, that we
thereby may be enabled to consider them in Order, & offer our
opinion thereupon to his Maj*'®, w'^'' we cannot now. do upon
these last rec'd, for want of a perfect & Authentick Collection of
the whole, And we desire you therefore to make what dispatch
you can therein.
We have found an inconvenience from some of his Maj*'*'^
Plantations, in having private Acts fastened together under the
same Seal with those y* are of a public nature, the one proving
sometimes an obstruccon to y^ dispatch of y^ other; And we
therefore desire you (as we have done other Governors) when-
soever any such private Acts come to be past in Virginia to take
care y* they be sent each of y'm under a Separate Seal, and that
the persons concerned therein be advised to direct some of their
friends here to Sollicit their Dispatch with the Attorney or Solli-
citor Generall and to furnish those friends with all memorials
necessary to enable y'm to give information in any Doubts or
Enquiries that may be made thereupon.
Tho' M"" Penn have given us a particular account of his hav-
ing applied himself (since his arrival in Pensilvania) to y^ refor
mation of the irregularities w"'' have been in y* Province, it is
very acceptable to us to receive the confirmation thereof from
You, and to understand yo"" readiness to Correspond w*'' him
as w*'* the Earle of Bellemont & Colonel Blakiston, in anything
for his Maj*''=* Service; And whensoever it shall happen that you
can all of you meet together to consult of y^ mutual Welfare of
your respective Govemm*^, we cannot but hope some good
effect from it.
Having lately rec'd a L'" from M"" John Moore, desiring y*
some Salary may be appointed for his Service as Advocate in
the Admiralty Court of Pensilvania, in which place he says you
had put him, we desire you to let him know y' we writ you the
4^'' January last upon the like occasion, (viz') That when any
Salaries are Settled upon the like Officers in other places, we
shal be ready to propose that y° same be done for him; But
that the Consideracon of y' matter belonging more properly to
268 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
the Lords of the Treasury, or Lords of the Admiralty, we do not
at present think it fit for us to move anything in it.
Upon what you write of the difficulty to get a Quorum of
Councellors to meet together and about Colonel Lee's desiring
to be discharged from attending upon that Service, we have
offered to their Excellencies the Lords Justices out Opinion that
he may be discharged accordingly, and that M' Lewis Burwell
may be constituted a Member of his Majesties Coimcil in Vir-
ginia in his stead.
We have ordered oiu* Secretary to write to you upon some
other heads of less moment; And so referring you for those mat
ters to his Letter; We bid you heartily farewell
Your very Loving Friends
Ph: Meadows
John Pollexfen
Abr. Hill
(To be Continued)
SUSSEX COUNTY WILLS
SUSSEX COUNTY WILLS, (VA.)
From organization in 1754 to 1804 (Some later).
Compiled by W. B. Cridlin.
(Continued from Vol. XIX, Page 57.)
Probated
Book Page
M
Malone, Daniel
1781
C
403
Malone, Daniel
1782
D
62 (Inv&Apt)
Magee, Drewry, Sen',
1796
F
3
McKinley, Duncan
1807
G
103 (Inv & Apt)
Malone, Daniel
1815
H
190
Mason, Col. David
1824
K
51 (Acct)
Moore, Ann
1776
C
202
Manry, Agnes
1797
F
66
Mabry, Abel
1802
F
283 (Inv&Apt)
May, Allen
1818
H
521
Mitchell, Henry
1754
A
4
Meacham, Henry
1758
A
103 (Inv&Apt)
Mitchel, Henry
1771
B
307 (Inv&Apt)
Manry, Henry
1772
C
31
Marable, Hartwell
1775
C
194
Moss, Henry
1782
D
2
Manry, Henry
1800
F
194
Mason, Henry B.
1818
H
451
Mason, John
1755
A
40
Moss, John
1761
A
198
May, Joseph
1763
A
300 (Acct)
Maclemore, John
1767
B
108
Munds, John
1768
B
162 (Acct)
Mitchel, John
1770
B
277
Moss, James
1772
C
29 (Inv & Apt)
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Meacham, Joshua 1775 C 159
Moss, John 1776 C 209
Morgan, John 1781 C 420
Mitchel, John 1782 D 89
Mangum, James 1784 D 237
Moss, Joanna 1784 D 273
Mason, John 1787 D 348
Mason, John (Codicil) 1785 D 343
Montgomery, John 1790 E 54 (Inv & Apt)
Mason, Joseph 1792 E 103
Malone, John 1794 E 248
Mitchel, John 1795 E 337
Mason, John 1796 E 434
Mitchell. Jacob 1797 F 48
Mason, John Sen'. 1802 F 295
Mason, Jane (Wid. of J.) 1802 F 395
Moore, James 1804 F 450
Malone, John 1812 G 391
Moss, John 1812 G 391
May, James 1818 H 537
Munds,John 1821 I 169
M\irphy, John 1821 I 180 (Inv & Apt)
Massenburg, John 1823 I 347
Moss, Mary 1775 C 192
Moore, Martha 1776 C 202
Mitchel, Milly 1788 D 499
Malone, Michael 1798 F 91
Murrell, Mary 1813 H 25 (Inv & Apt)
Martin, Elizabeth 1756 A 60
Moore, EHzabeth 1761 A 227
Moss, EHzabeth 1782 D 40
Moss, Ephriam 1792 E 98
Magee, Gillam 1811 G 353
Mason, Isaac 1758 A 84
Mason, Littleberry 1807 G 87
Moss, William 1758 A 87 (Inv & Apt)
Metcalf, Warner 1760 A 170 (Inv & Apt)
McMichael, William 1765 B 46 (Inv & Apt)
SUSSEX COUNTY WILLS 271
Moore, William 1768 B 146 (Inv & Apt)
Maloone, William 1774 C 135
Mitchell, William 1778 C 312
Mason, William 1781 C 409
Moore, William 1781 C 410
Moss, William 1786 D 388
Mason, WHliam 1793 E 218
Magee, Willey 1809 G 202
Massenberg, William 1816 H 280
Murphy, Warren 1816 H 305 (Inv)
Morgan, Priscella 1758 A 105 (Acct)
Magee, Priscella 1810 G 243 (Inv)
Mason, Seth 1759 A 129 (Inv)
Moore, Sarah 1771 B 327
Moss, Seth 1777 C 263
Moss, Sampson 1782 D 75 (Inv)
Maggot, Samuel 1787 D 469
Moss, Benjamin 1761 A 209 (Inv)
Meacham, Banks 1798 F 108
Maclemore, Burrell 1798 F 123
Millar, Benjamin 1809 G 169
Meacham, Banks 1809 G 354
Malone, Nathaniel 1761 A 211
Mitchell, Nathaniel 1771 B 304
Massenburg, Nicholas 1772 B 344
Mitchell, Thomas 1762 A 232
Mimiford, Thomas 1763 A 262
Moore, Thomas, Senr. 1765 B 56
Masingale, Thomas 1794 E 279
Mabry, Charles 1769 B 209 (Inv)
Murfee, Charles 1805 F 512
Mangum, Caty 1817 H 338
Moore, Charles 1818 H 453
Maclemore, Charles 1818 H 527
Megee, Ralph 1770 B 273
Megee, Robert 1786 D 415
Moore, Robert 1802 F 298
Mitchell, Reaps 1803 F 340
272 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Moore, Robert (a citizen of
N. C.) 1808 G 123 (Died "Trav-
eling in Va.")
Murrul, Robert 1808 G 127 (Acct)
Moore, Robert 1823 I 431
Massenberg, Rebecca 1824 K 116
N
Nicolson, John 1754 A 2
Nicolson, John 1777 C 264
Newsom, Jacob 1794 E 251 (Inv)
Northcross, James 1802 F 308
Northcross, Jane 1808 G 167
Niblett, Benjamin 1828 L 5 (Inv)
Nicholson, Robert 1762 A 250
Northcross, Richard 1802 F 280 & 288
Neaves, Daniel 1816 H 270 (Inv)
Noevell, William 1764 B 14 (Inv)
Nicholson, William 1797 F 5
Niblett, William 1808 G 150
Niblett, Palatiah 1816 H 304
Northington, Starling 1773 C 35 (Inv)
Neves, Susanna 1799 F 162
Newsom, Sally 1815 H 157
Nicholson, Lydda 1814 H 114
Nicholson, Mary 1776 C 227
Nicholson, Michael 1786 D 403 (Inv)
Nicholson, Etheldred 1806 F 533 & 557
Northington, Nathan 1777 C 278
Nives, EHzabeth 1829 I 138
Nicholson, Harris 1805 F 464
Nicholson, Howell 1827 L 17
Nicholson, Capt. Flood 1781 C 418
Nicholson, Robert F. 1810 G 295 (Inv)
Northcross, Frederick 1816 H 235
Newsom, Charlotte 1789 D 561
Newsome, Chas. S. 1819 I 59 (Inv)
Newsom, Thomas 1785 D 289
Newsom, Temperance 1831 L 373
SUSSEX COUNTY WILLS. 273
O
Owen, John 1783 D 131 (Inv)
Ogbum, John 1790 E 0
Owen, John 1808 G 121
Owen, Samuel 1820 I 105
Ogbum, Edmund 1782 D 12
Owen, Elizabeth 1821 I 159 (Inv)
Owen, David 1790 E 35
Owen, Bolaam 1822 I 269 (Inv)
Owen, Robert 1772 B 350
Owen, Hannah 1796 E 432
Oliver, Thomas 1760 A 162
Ogbume, Augustine 1807 G 71
Oliver, Asa 1819 I 79 (Inv)
Owen, William 1763 A 265
Oliver, William 1795 E 365 (Inv)
Partridge, Nicolas 1756 A 46
Parham, Nachaniel 1795 E 356
Partridge, Nicholas 1798 F 96 (Inv)
Pennington, Nancy 1812 G 433
Peebles, Nathaniel 1816 H 279
Presson, Nicholas 1828 L 61
Pettway, Robert 1757 A 65
Parsons, Robert 1777 C 265
Pepper, Richard 1759 A 121
Parham, Robert 1767 B 145
Pettway, Robert 1772 C 14
Pettway, Robert 1784 D 213
Parham, Rebecca 1790 E 18
Parham, Rebecca 1798 F 103
Parker, Richard 1810 G 248
Parsons, Robert 1813 H 1
Pond, Richard 1838 M 331 (Inv)
Pair. WilHam 1757 A 67
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Parham, William 1758 A 108
Partridge, Wells 1765 B 29
Parker, William 1768 B 159
Pettway, William 1774 C 146
Parham, William 1775 C 173
Parker, William 1779 C 329
Partin, William 1787 D 440
Prince, William 1801 F 237
Pettway, William 1804 F 442
Pleasants, William 1809 G 176
Porch, William 1812 G 215 (Inv)
Parham, William 1818 H 467
Pennington, Winiield 1823 I 432
Parker, Sarah 1760 A 162
Pettway, Sterling 1792 E 108
Parham, Stith (of S. C.) 1793 E 222
Powell Se>'mour 1794 E 300 (A letter con-
strued as will)
Parham, Sarah 1805 F 470 (Inv)
Peebles, Susanna G. 1817 H 380
Parham, Stith 1806 F 529
Plunket, Samuel 1824 K 107 (Inv)
Peters, Thomas 1760 A 171 (Inv)
Pennington, Thomas 1772 B 342
Parham, Capt. Thomas 1773 C 109
Pate, Thomas 1774 C 110
Peters, Thomas 1777 C 241
Parham, Thomas 1781 C 395
Peebles, William 1782 C 434
Presson, Thomas 1785 D 369
Pate, Thomas 1822 I 285 (Inv)
Pretlow, Joshua 1762 A 241 (Inv)
Parham, John 1764 A 313
Pennington, John, Sr. 1766 B 77
Pennington, John, Jr. 1766 B 78
Pennington, Joshua 1768 B 159
Pennington, Joseph 1768 B 175
Paynter, John 1772 B 339 (Inv)
SUSSEX COUNTY WILLS.
275
Pennington, John
1773
C
89
Poarch, James
1776
C
217
Pettway, John
1781
C
416
Peoples, Jesse
1782
D
13
Phillips, James
1782
D
17
Parham, John
1791
E
94
Parham, James
1793
E
228
Powell, John
1798
F
94 (of Oglethorpe
Co., Ga.)
Porch, James
1801
F
238
Parham, John
1811
G
372
Potts, John
1814
H
91
Pate, John
1814
H
116
Pennington, John
1823
I
338
Parham, James L.
1824
K
84
Parr, John
1836
M
347
Parham, Ephriam
1763
A
296
Pettway, Edward
1773
C
32
Pettway, Edward
1779
C
339
Pate, Edward
1805
F
465
Pennington, Edward
1805
F
467
Prince, Elizabeth
1811
G
370
Pegram, Edwin
1828
L
106
Price, Ann
1765
B
49 (Inv)
Parham, Anderson
1797
F
34
Porch, Ann
1810
G
265
Parham, Ann
1812
G
432
Parham, Abraham
1816
H
227
Parker, Archibald
1818
H
478 (Inv)
Parham, Ann Eliza
1822
I
317 (Inv)
(Orphan o f
Lewis
Parham)
Porch, Henry
1765
B
63
Pride, Halcott
1774
C
138
Pride, Halcott
1775
C
150 (Inv)
(In N. C. pro-
vince.)
276
VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE
Porch, Henry-
1775
C
169
Pride, Halcott
1775
C
180 (Inv)
(Est. in Din-
widdie Co.)
Prince, Hannah
1783
D
184
Pettway, Hinchy
1791
E
68
Porch, Henry
1794
E
263
Pate, Hardy
1807
G
68
Pennington, Moses
1766
B
104 (Inv)
Parham, Mathew
1772
B
347
Parham, Mary
1788
D
475
Parham, Mathew
1795
E
380
Pilkington, Mary
1801
F
231
Peters, Mathew
1810
G
242
Pennington, Marcus
1810
G
258
Porch, Peter
1779
C
322
Porch, Peterson
1813
F
345 (Inv)
Prince, Patsy, Martha
1809
G
211 (Mother of
J o h n R.
Prince.)
Pennington, David
1781
C
390
Pennington, David
1783
D
210
Pleasants, Geo.
1783
D
115
Parham, George
1808
D
148
Portlock, Charles
1797
F
79
Pate, Cordy
1807
G
65 (Inv)
Potts, Charles
1824
K
136 (Inv)
Parham, Caesar
1828
L
35
Poarch, Israel
1783
D
168 (Will c o n-
tested, being
only a letter.
Pettway, Lucy
1800
F
211
Parham, Lewis
1805
F
459
Phipps, Benjamin
1801
F
219
Pretlow, Benjamin
1824
K
78 (Inv)
Parham, Booth
1825
K
280
Pennington, Frederick
1809
G
206
Parham, Frances
1817
H
389
(To be Continued)
HENRY COUNTY MARRIAGES. 277
HENRY COUNTY.
From its Formation in 1776 to the end of the Eighteenth
Century, et seg:
Marriage License Bonds.
From the files of the Clerk's office, by C. B. Bryant,
Martinsville, Va.
Alexander, WilUam — Jean Ferguson 21 Feby., 1778
Anderson, Robert — Elizabeth Graves 4 Sept., 1794
Bassett, Burwell— Polly Hunter...__ 25 Jany., 1794
Blakey, Churchill— Agnes Anthony 2 Aug., 1780
Brown, Isham— Mary Dilloner _ 19 July, 1793
Bernard, Walter— Ruth Hill 6 April, 1782
Briscoe, Truman— Catherine Dunn._ 22 Dec., 1782
Bledsoe, Peachy— Peggy George 12 July, 1780
Bayles, William— Tabitha Minnes.__ 12 April, 1793
Billeman, Wm— Nilly Molen._ _ 25 Dec, 1794
Burgess, Davis — Lucy Pace 26 Jany., 1794
Burress, Jacob — Susannah Martin 13 Mar., 1781
Bailey, John— Lydia Wilson 18 March, 1793
Cannon, James— Patsy Wilson 18 Dec, 1793
Crouch, Joseph— Peggy Sanford. 20 Feb., 1778
Cason, Edward— Lucy Edwards.^.. 27 April, 1793
CoUey, John— Sarah France 17 Oct., 1789
Cox, John— Leaner Boiling 6 Sept., 1791
Clark, John— Sally Standefor..._ 4 Nov., 1779
Cunningham, Jos. — Nancy Davis 16 July, 1793
Cockram, Wm.— Sally Edmondson. 5 Aug., 1780
Compton, Ebenezer — Ailcey Hopper 6 May, 1794
Conway, John— Elizabeth Williams.- 5 Nov., 1782
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Carter, Jos. — Nanny Manifee..- 24 June, 1778
Chewning, John — Lettie Payne...- 26 April, 1778
Cayton, Wm.— Rachel Oakes 4 Jany., 1793
Carter, Jos. — Mary Billion 16 Jany., 1794
Cunningham, Wm.— Mary Pyrtle .27 Nov., 1793
Dillener, Henry — Lucy Murphy 19 July, 1793
Dooly, Thomas— Lucy Webb ..13 April, 1779
Dillon, Wm.— Tabitha Witt... .....19 Dec, 1792
Dent, Shadrick— Mary Murphy 16 Nov., 1783
Dillon, Benjn, Jr.— Elizabeth Witty. .21 Mar., 1792
Dillingham, Lott— Ann Dillingham 2 Mar., 1792
Dickinson, John — Isbell Woods 2 June, 1781
Edmundson, Humphry — Francis Swanson ...22 Nov., 1779
Elkins, David— Mary Pedigo 6 April, 1793
Edwards, Wm.— Elizabeth Britain... 2 Aug., 1791
Edwards, Owen— Judith Morton... 29 Oct., 1794
Earles, Joshua — Elizabeth Lucas. ...18 June, 1792
Farris, Thomas— Judith Quarles 7 Jany., 1792
Fuller, Britain— Nancy Jackson... 29 Feby., 1780
Griffith, Wm.— Susannah Jones 25 July, 1782
Griggs, John— Pheby Ackolas 30 July, 1792
Goven, Wm.— Sarah Griggs ...27 Oct., 1794
Hailey, John— Lucy Ryan 28 July, 1794
Hunt, James— Sarah Terry 25 May, 1780
Hampton, Laban — Leany Stephens... 6 Jany., 1794
Hamilton, George — Agnes Cooper 18 April, 1783
Hogans, Wm. — Nancy Dillard ...19 Jany., 1780
Hawkins, Benj— Molly Taylor...... 1 Oct., 1778
Hopper, Wm.— Hecter Stephens 18 May, 1793
Hardy, Charles— Rachel Parsley 5 Feb., 1793
Haley, Wm.— Nancy Jackson 20 Dec, 1792
Hannah, Alex.— Sarah Pelptory 16 Oct., 1793
Jones, Robert — Sina Richards 20 June, 1785
Joyce, Andrew— Betsy King 25 June, 1792
Jamerson, Thomas — Hesey Huston 2 Dec, 1794
KeUey, John— Betty Bybee 10 Feb., 1781
Knox, Benj. — Jemima Gardner 12 Jany., 1780
King, Wm.— Nancy Mitchell 19 July, 1794
HENRY COUNTY MARRIAGES. 279
Kirkham, Wm.— Elizabeth Blize 15 Dec, 1792
Lindsey, Henry— Elizabeth Smith 26 Nov., 1791
Letchworth, Benj.— Eleanor Adams .24 Oct., 1792
Lyon, Stephen— Elley Perkins 11 Dec., 1782
Lanier, Washington — Elizabeth Hicks 15 Nov., 1784
Mitchell, Wm.— Martha Stoker 30 May, 1778
Moore, Shater— Ann Hooker ..13 May, 1778
McGuire, AUegania— Sarah Holliday 27 June, 1782
Martin, Joseph — Susannah Graves 24 Feb., 1784
Martin, Joseph— Ruth Dillard. 30 Aug., 1793
Melvin, Levi — Elizabeth Gooch ...18 June, 1793
Medley, John— Ann Carter....... ...30 Oct., 1797
Melvin, Jamer — Katy Kannon 24 June, 1795
Murphy, Gabriel — Ruth Peregoy 7 Nov., 1794
Matthews, Wm.— EHzabeth Hunter 30 June, 1794
Mastin, Jacob— Elizabeth Melvin..... 12 Jiily, 1792
Mays, Liggen — Easter Daniel..... 2 July, 1792
Nunn, Thomas — Jean Pace 14 Jany., 1794
Norris, Zebulon — Elizabeth Dillingham 14 Dec, 1793
Northcutt, Frances— Lucy Haley...... ...26 May, 1794
Norton, John— Sarah Penn ...26 July, 1784
Nichols, David — Clarey Rowland... 4 Dec, 1793
O'neal, BasH- Milly Briscoe 17 Jany., 1789
Pedigo, Robert, Jr— Parsley 3 Jany, 1792
Pool, George— Cloah Payne 25 Dec, 1778
Penn, George — Patty Farriss 6 Dec, 1784
Patrick, James— Sarah Dunlop 13 Oct., 1791
Pearson, Meredith — Rhoda Delozier 10 May, 1794
Philport, Saml.— Mary Hannah 12 Jany., 1785
Pyrtlc, John— Polly Maupin 5 Feby., 1793
Parberry; James — Ann Graves 10 May, 1784
Peck, David— Jean Martin 26 Aug., 1779
Philpott, Charles— EHzabeth Hubbard 24 Nov., 1794
Pitman, James — Martha Taylor 2 July, 1781
Quarles, James — Elizabeth Pelphry 22 Nov., 1791
Reynolds, George — Susannah Lansford 12 June, 1779
Rowland, Michael— Elizabeth Hairston 20 June, 1778
Rowland, Baldwin— Sarah Hairston 8 May, 1782
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Rowland, John, Jr.— Enis Sturgeon __ 23 July, 1780
Richards, Shadrick — Susannah Hamilton. 28 Oct., 1779
Rea, David— Frances East 22 July, 1794
Richardson, John — Mary Ryan. 16 Jany., 1779
Rentfro, Mark— Naomi Standifer. ..22 Apl., 1779
Ray, Joseph — Mary Ann Hayse 30 Nov., 1793
Standifer, Wm. — Jemima Jones 24 June, 1779
Sandford, John— Judith Gamer 20 Feby., 1778
Smith, Gideon — Mary Hirston.„ __... 27 April, 1784
Snidow, Phillip— Barbara Prilliman 14 Feby., 1782
Sahnon, Thaddeus— Elizabeth Hoknes 26 Mar., 1794
Shelton, Nathl.— Mary Shelton 16 Sept., 1794
Steward, Wm.— Milly Eastes ...17 June, 1792
Stone, John— Mary Philpott..._ 10 July, 1792
Stanley, Joseph — Sarah Kitchen 15 June, 1785
Stone, William— Elizabeth Nunn.... 14 Sept., 1793
Sumpter, Wm.— Margarett Pyrtle... 17 May, 1792
Tankersley, George — Elizabeth Garrison ...29 Sept., 1779
Taylor, James— Elizabeth Williams ...29 Dec, 1794
Threlkeld, Elijah— Elizabeth Cook 14 Nov., 1781
Thompson, Wm.— Dolthien Stockton. 12 Mar., 1794
Thomas, Augustine — Deborah Fulkerson 1 Dec, 1778
Wash, John — Nancy Frazier Gatewood 2 Aug., 1779
Wade, Moses — Fanny Furguson 29 Sept.,
Woods, John— Lucy Hawkins..._ 10 April, 1782
Williamson, Robert— Nancy Cox. 18 Sept., 1793
Woods, George — Fanny Mason 17 Feby., 1778
Wilson, Nath'l.— Susannah Stephens 19 May, 1793
Ware, John— Margarett Lady._ 6 Sept., 1780
Woods, Hugh — Sarah Ann George . 5 Aug., 1779
Note. — It is believed that this list does not by any means
include all the marriages in this county during the above period,
but thus far no other bonds have been found.
Jany 13, 1904. C. B. B.
MINUTES OF COUNCIL AND GENERAL COURT. 281
MINUTES OF THE COUNCIL AND GENERAL COURT
1624, &c.*
From the Originals in the Library of Congress
^AU erasures in the original are here printed in italics.
(Continued)
[Beginning of Second Book of the Original Record]
A Courte Booke begun the xv***
of Januarye 1624
[Rest of page blank]
[Ink folio 72]
A Courte held the l?**^ of January 1624
present S"" Franncis Wyatt knight,
Sr George Yardley, Knight, m' Threasiirer
Doctor Pott and Capt Smithe
Y* is ordered y* W'm Binck (1) shall enioye the howse & grounde
left vnto him by John Lightfoote for an Dureing the tearme
for * * * 'rs granted to him by the said John Lightfoote ac-
cordinge to ^the Bargane made between them before John
Southeme w"^ vppon oath y^ said John Southeme hath wit-
nessed
(l)-William Bink, and his wife Anne, both of whom came in the George,
were living at the Main, James City, at the census of 1624-5.
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Y* is ordered y' Nathaniell Cawsey (2) shall take into his hands
and
save Custodie all such goods as belonge to the Company and
Societie of Trweloues Plantatione Accordinge as m""
White overseer for that Company Desired, And that he
take a trwe Inventory thereof before Sufficyent men
and to be Accomptable for the same and to present y" said
Inventorie to y^ Gou'nor and Counsell w^'^in one moneth
next after the date hereof
Y* is furthered ordered y* m'' Cawssey shall receave into his
service those three men apoynted him by m' Whites will
Provided that the strengthen the Plantation w**^ three other
men, And yf Ensigne Chaplen will affourde grounde and
howse roome to Henry Turner, waiter Price and theire
servante, y* then m"" Cawssey provide other three in the
Roome of them to strengthen the Trweloues Plantation
Y* is ordered y* Richarde miltone (3) shall live at shirley hun-
dred
and looke vnto the Cattle of Barkley hundred for which
he shalbee allowed Fif tie pound waight of Tobacco and
the milke of the said Kyne, Provided that he Carefully
looke vnto them
(2)-Nathaniel Causey, lived at "Causeys Cave" or "Care," in the pres-
ent Prince George County, probably the later "Cawsons," which was
the birthplace of Jolm Randolph of Roanoke, and long a seat of the
Bland family; at the census of 1624-5 he lived at Jordan's Journey, and
his "Muster" comprised himself, who came in the Phoenix in 1607, his
wife Thomasine who came in the Lyon in 1609, and five servants. Na-
thaniel Causey was one of John Smith's soldiers was badly wounded
during the Indian Massacre of 1622, was a member of the House of Bur-
gesses in 1623, and when he returned to England in 1627 (whether as a
visitor or to stay is not known) was one of those who contributed in-
formation to Smith's General History.
Between May, 1621 and June, 1622 among the large grants of land made
by the Virginia Company was one to Rowland Truelove, and several
associates, who organized themselves into a private Society called the
Truelove Society Plantation. But little is known of this plantation.
Brown, First Republic, (499,568) mentions two voyages in 1622 and 1623
from England of the bark Truelove belonging to the Society, carrying
supplies and emigrants.
(3)-Richard Milton, who came in the Suply in 1620, lived at Jordon's
Journey, 1624-5.
MINUTES OF COUNCIL AND GENERAL COURT. 283
Peeter Cecill swome & Examined sayeth that John
Downman (4) vsed those oprobious speeches w*^** are mentioned
in Cap. nicholes marten his Declaratione
Thomas Rastell swome and Examined sayeth and affirmeth
vpon his oath that he hath paide all the Debte char-
ged vppon his Accompt
[Ink folio 73]
Y* is ordered y*^ John Downeman for his oprobius
speeches vsed to Cap nicholes Martine shall paye
tenn pound ster' for a fyne and Acknowledg his faulte
in the Publique Congregation at Kickotan and then to
aske Cap' Martine forgivenes
It is ordered y^ whereas there remayneth over and aboue
those Disbursements Disbursed by m'' Rastell one hundred
and forty pownd ster' at three shillings p pownd in the
handes of m' Rastell, That m'' Rastell shall leave
those Dept that are Dew to him here in Virginia
Amountinge to two thowsand two hundred pownd
waight of Tobacco, to this Courte as securitie
Provided that m' Rastell at or before the first
(4)- John Dowman age 33, who had come on the John and Francis in 1611,
lived at Elizabeth City in 1624-5, with his wife Elizabeth, age 22, who
came in the Warwick in 1621. He was a Burgess for Elizabeth City in
1623.
Captain Nicholas Marten or Martian was a Protestant Walloon who was
denizized in England and came to Virginia. He lived at the Main near
Jamestown in 1624, at Elizabeth City in 1625, (when his age is. given
as 33 and it is stated he came in the Francis Bonaventure in 1620), was
one of the first settlers at Kiskiack (in the neighborliood of the present
Yorktown) in 1620. He was a member of the House of Burgesses for
Kiskiack in March, 1624-5, for that place and the Isle of Kent, February,
1631-2 and for Kiskiack, Sept., 1632, and February, 1632-3. His will
was proved in York County April 4, 1657. His first wife appears to
have been Jane, widow of Lt. Edward Berkeley and his second Isabell
Beech. Captain Martian took a leading part in the first Virginia "re-
bellion," that against Governor Harvey in 1635, and had the honor to
be the common ancestor of Washington and Lee.
The "Publique Congregation" refers to the members of the church
near Hampton, whose foundations were discovered not long ago.
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Daye of februarye w*=^ shalbe in the yeere of o' lord
god 1625 Do p duce and send over from George
Gauntlett A Discharge, that m'' Rastell shall haue
those Deptes retomed him againe.
M'^ Rastell Acknowledgeth y* he hath receaved three
hxmdred and fyf tye pownde waight of Tobacco of
Sargeant W'm Barry and John Warde, vppon
Condicone to bringe or send over fower servantes
to be bounde for five yeeres apeece at o"" before
Christmas next or ellse to f orf ect seaven himdred
pownd waight of Tobacco
M'' Threasurer Doth make Choyse for five hundred
Acres of Land at Chapokes Creeke oposite
against Sandy poynte for ye land dew to his office
[Ink folio 74]
A Courte held the 24*'^ of Januarye 1624
present S"" Franncis Wyatt knight, &c
Sr: George Yardley, m'' Threasiirer, Doctor
Pott, Capt Hamer & Capt. Smith,
It is ordered y* m'' w™ Horwood shall paye fower barrells
of Come and the remainder of two hundred pownd waight
of Tobacco w**" in for Twenty Days next after ye date
hereof to Capt Hamer at his Dwelling howse
at hog Ilande
Concerning Capt Peerce his peticione it is thought resonable
y' he shvld be satisfied for the loss of his shallop, but
for y* there is noe Publique stock to satisfie the same
it is refered vnto the generall Assembly
Francis Banck swome and examined sayeth y* m' Cheale
goeinge from the forte to the store to share A hogshed
MINUTES OF COUNCIL AND GENERAL COURT. 285
of Beeff, Called John Bennett, w'=^ then stood CenteneU (5)
to go w*** him, and John Benett sent this Examinat
to send m"" Pinke to saide Chealnell in his place, w^^ m'' Pinke
refused to Doe, and this Deponent goinge into ye field
to worke, Francis woodsome was then CenteneU,
after this m'' Pinke cam into the Field and went &
stoode by ye men y* were at woorke and after ye men had
gone throw there Roes they sate Downe to Drinke Tobacco
and m'' Pinke sate downe w**" them and after this Deponent
cam in and sate Downe w*^ them, And Francis woodsome
also, but whether woodsome were cald or whether
he cam of, of him self or not, he knoweth nott, but
whether Henry Pincke cam to garde, or to stande
CenteneU this Deponent knoweth nott
[Ink folio 75]
(9) And further this Exam'nt sayeth y* when the
Alarm' was geven Henry Pinke and this Exam'nt
and others cam to the olde forte whenc
m'' Bate w*** some other sett them ov before.
Cam Bass Came, and goinge from there to
the other forte they brought of to o'' three
of the slayne men, before Capt' Bass cam in
(5)-This entry shows that in 1624 there were stores or warehouses out-
side the palisades of the fort at Jamestown and that sentries were kept
regularly on duty.
(9)-These entries evidently refer to an attack made by Indians on one
of the Virginia settlements in 1623 or 1624. It is probable the attack
occurred at Warrosquoiacke (present Isle of Wight Co.) Captain Nathan-
iel Basse of Basses Choice in 1625, was then aged 35 and had come in the
Furtherance in 1622. On June 2, 1620 and January 30, 1621-2, he
with his associates, Sir Richard Worsley, Bart. John Hobson, gent,
and Captain Christopher Lawne agreed with the Virginia Company to
transport 100 persons to Virginia, and received a confirmation of their
old patent, the plantations on which was called "The Isle of Wight Plan-
tation." Captain Basse was Burgess for Warrosquoiacke March. 1623-4
and October, 1629.
Basse's choice was at Warrosquoiacke. Nearby was the planta-
tion of Mr. Edward Bennett, and Henry Pinke, who came in the London
Merchant in 1619 and John Bate, who came in the Addam in 1621,
were included among Bennett's servants or subordinates. Bennett's Plan-
tation was at the present Rock Wharf on James River and Basse's Choice
was not far below on the west side of the mouth of Pagan Creek.
286 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE
and then w*"" Capt' Bass his help they brought
of the rest
M'' Francis Bolton minister affirmeth y* p'sently
vppon the Alarm m'' Bates Ariued him self
w**" as much speed as he could and sett owt powder
and shott, and went owt of the forte & went
to rescue the men
And further sayeth y* m"" Chewe did tell him
Since it Appeareth y* there was A Centinnell sett
vppon the men, And that by his necklect in
Cominge of, that misfortune happened, and him selfe
slayne, There appears to us noe Cause to
Censure the rest
Capt Hamer at this Courte Doth assigne over to m""
Richard Kingsmill one hundred acres of lande
Dve to him for Transportation of two and
in ye yeere of the lord 1617 in the good ship
caled the Edwyn, the names of ye servants
are, Robert Burte and W'm Halila
[Ink folio 76]
M"" W'm Horwood depaieth y* ye busines betweene him and
Capt' Hamer Conceminge John Davis, be referred
till the arrival of shipping owt of England at w<^^
tyme m"" Horwood is to make Satisfaction or ells
the business to be Determined by the Courte
Edwarde Grunden (6) gent swome and Examined sayeth, that
S"" Samuell Argall gave Livt' Batters Certen
land in James Jland, And that Livt' Batters, Did
(6)-Edward Grindon was Burgess for "Smythe's Mount," the other
side of the water and Hog Island, 1622-23. He was living across the river
from Jamestown February, 1623.
MINUTES OF COUNCIL AND GENERAL COURT. 287
sell ye same land to David Ellis, for betwixt thirty
or f ortie pownds ster '
Addam Dixon sworae and examined, affirmeth ye same
Y*^ is ordered y* upon these depositions David Ellis shall haue
A pattent
of the same lande, w therby to enable him
to make good his assignment to John Raddishe
and John Radish his sale to Sir George
John Davis swome and exam'd sayeth
Y* is ordered y* Rice How (7) shall Redeliuer
the man servant to M' Pallmer
Silvester Bullen (8) swome and Examined sayeth' y* Robert
marshall Did Accept of Certen Comodities he bought
of Daniell Lucy, and three bushells of Come in full
payment for A Sowe he sold m"" Lacye
(7)-Rice How or Hooe (proper form of the name) was born about
1599, and came to Virginia, not in 1635, as has been heretofore stated,
but at least as early as 1624. He patented considerable tracts of land
in James City and Charles City Counties, and was member of the House
of Burgesses for Shirley Htmdred Island 1642 and for Charles City
County 1644, 1645 and 1646. The destruction of the records of Charles
City County and of most of the early ones of Stafford prevent us from
ascertaining his relation to the Hooes of Stafford, King George, &c.
In the census of 1624-5, in Christopher Woodward's "Muster" at
West and Shirley Hundred, appear his own name and those of his
"partners" John Higgins and Rice Howe, who was then aged 26 and who
came in the Gifte in 1618.
In the remaining records of vStafford is a suit, made 1690, by a white
servant endeavoring to obtain his freedom. He states that he was
sold to Thomas Howard, deceased, "predecessor to Mr. Rice Hooe"
(which means that Hooe had married Howard's widow) and had served
six years, making it about 1684, when he was sold. In the same county
Court in 1691 is a suit against Rice Hooe, who married Mary Massey,
widow. In a deed in Stafford, 1701, is mention of a mill on Occoquan
built by the father of Mr. Rice Hooe, then living. The Rice Hooe of
the text was probably the father of the first of the name in Stafford,
though there is no positive proof. For notes on Hooe family, see this
Magazine IV., 427-429; XIII, 319-320.
(8)-Silvestcr Bullen, aged 28 in 1625, was then a servant to Richard
Tree on James City Island. Robert Marshall and Anne, his wife, both
of whom came in the George, were living at James City Island 1625.
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[Ink folio 77]
Sargent Thomas Crampe swome & Examined sayeth
y* m"" Bess Did first dress Livt' Harisons wounde
It is ordered y* yf the boy be to serve
after the masters Death y't then his service
the p'vost m y* George menefree
Doe paye one hundred and Fiftie pownd
waight of Tobacco to the p'vost marshall
owt of the masters wages or otherwyse
to shew cause to the Contrary in ye
Courte y* next mondaye
Yt is ordered y* p'vost marshall shall
have a pownde of Tobacco of every one
that is by him warned to the Courte
It is ordered that Capt : Roger Smyth shall have paid
him by the Treaor in full satisfacion of his sal arte
agreed vpon for his vndertaking of the Fort att
Warescoick twelve hundred pownds of Tobacco, and
twelve barrells of Indian come, w'= tobacco and Come
is to be part of that w° is due to the Councell
beinge the moyty of the Companies rentes, and what
shall remayne of Come and X tobacco to be equally
divided among the Councell
Wassell Rayner (10) swome and examined sayeth that John
Bath
gent lyeinge Sicke at theire m"" his howse made a will wherein
he had given his estate to A yonge woman in England and
aboute A moneth after y' will was made he caled to m""
Stephens boy James to brtng him the will and caused
the boy to caste it into y'' fier and saw it bumte, after w*'''
he growinge very weake Desired m'' Richard Stephens to
(lO)-Wassell Rayner, aged 28, and his wife Joane were among the ser-
vants of Richard Stephens at James City in 1624-5.
MINUTES OF COUNCIL AND GENERAL COURT. 289
take his estate into his hands, and to paye his Dept
in this Countrey and to retume ye remaynder to his father
in London
Joane Rayner wyeffe to wassell Raynar affirmeth y« same.
[ink folio 78]
Thomas Nunn swome and Examined sayeth, That John
Crowd 'nt
tooke in A passenger at Salfordes Creeke and was to land him
at warishcoyke, where they putt in, and landed the said pas-
senger
and the weather growing fowle, and they haveinge but A smale
grapple Ancher, durst nott putt owt to Sea, but hopinge
that ye weather would breake vpp, they staid at warishcoyke
two dayes and two night, dwringe all w'^'^ tyme it did
rayne very much, and sayeth yt they vsed all ye best meanes
they could to save the Tobacco, by Coveringe it wth ye Sailes
w*^ matt and Rugg. And that the Tobacco tooke no hurte
through any Default or negligence of theirs. And further this
Examinat saith that w* Bargaine or Agreement was made
betweene Capt' willcox and John Crowdeck he knoweth nott
Edwarde marshall swome and examined aihrmeth all that to be
trew w'''^ Thomas nunn hath formerly said.
Thomas Sulley (11) hath Bargained and sold his six Acres of
Lande in James Cytie Islande to Sr George Yardley knight
together w'*" the Patent thereof for ever, for w"*^ Sr :
George is to pay him one hundred pwnd waight of the
best marchantable Tobacco in good meale, yf any come in
or ells yf meale come nott in in other goods Comodities
and to pay m'' Cley bourne for makinge the Patent
(ll)-Thomas Sully, yeoman and ancient planter, patented sLx acres in
James City 1624. He was aged 36 in 1625 and had come in the Sara in
1611. His wife Maudlyn, aged 30, had come in the London Merchant in
1620.
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Persivall wood (12) and Ann his wyffe hath sold one Tenement
and twelve Acres of grounde lyinge at Black poynte
late nathaniell Hutts, to sr George Yardley knight
for two hundred and Fyftie pownds waight of the best
marchantable Tobacco, whereof there is paide in hand
one hundred sixtie and two pownde
[ink folio 79]
A Courte held the last daye of January 1624
beinge present Sr Francis Wyatt knight Gou'nor & C
Sr George Yardley, m'' Threar, Doctor Pott
and Capt' Smith
William Englishe (13) swome & examined sayeth y* Capt'
willcox and John Crowdick had speaches at Capt' willcoxs
house for Caryinge of Certen Tobacco to James Cyttie
at w*''' tyme John Crowdick did vndertake for to
deliver his Tobacco in safetie at James Cyttie, y'^ danger
of Sea excepted
Richarde Arthur swome and Examined affirmeth
as much as William Englishe hath saide
And further this Examinate saith that Thomas mun
Conffed at Robert pooles howse that the Tobacco
was sppoyld through meere neckligence
And the like m*" Englishe by the oathe he hath taken
afhrmeth he hurd Thomas Mun deliver at Robert
pooles howse
And further these deponent sayeth y* Crowdick was
(12)-Percival Wood and Anne, his wife, both of whom came in the
George, were living at Mulberry Island in January, 1624.
(13)-William English was a member of the House of Burgesses for
Elizabeth City, 1629-1632 and 1632-3. He removed to the neighbor-
hood of the present Yorktown, was a justice of the first court of York Co.
on July 12, 1863 and in 1635, when he was Sheriff of the county, a meeting
at which the deposition of Governor Harvey was planned was held at
his house.
MINUTES OF COUNCIL AND GENERAL COURT. 291
ahead of Capt' willcocks boate aboue blunt poynt
and that the winde was fayer to bring them to James
Cyttie
Yt is ordered y* John Croudicke shall paye Capt' willcoks
one hundred and fortie pownds waight of Tobacco, and
y** said Crowdick shall aft loose his fraighte w^**
was sixtie pownds waight of Tobacco
Doctor Pott doth afifirme y* Cominge to Capt' Harvey his
howse
together w**" him, the said Capt' Harvie (william mutch (14)
not
beinge at home) sent for him to speake w*'' him, and when he
came, Capt' Harvey desired mutch to deliver him the Covenant
formerly drawne, to w'^^ he refused replyed, first lett
me see my Come, Capt' Harvey told him he scorned to kepe
back his Come, mutch replyed againe he would have his
corne before he should see them. Then Capt' Hai-vie told
him he was an idle knave, and y* he could find in his
hart to Cudgell his Coate, To w'=^ mutch answered scome
fully, alas Sr it is not in you, whereupon Capt'
[ink folio 80]
Harvie stooke over y^ pate w"^ his Trunchione, And
he saith further y*^ mutch did give fu other p' vokinge
speeches,
Yt is the opinione of the Courte that Christopher
Barker goinge from mr Allnutt Contrarie to
his Covenant w^''owt shewinge any cause in Court
why, is not to haue any recompenc for the tyme he was w*** mr
Allnutt
he was w^** m' Allnutt
(14)-William Mutch, who came in the Jonathan, and his wife Margery,
who came in the George in 1623, were living at James City 1625.
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John How gent swome and examined saith that
Thomas Parke before his goinge from Accomack
beinge moved about the making of his will, hee
made answere, it hee would make noe will, for
that he had given all hee had to his mate
William Bybby (some smale parte ther of
Tobacco beinge sent to his mother in Englande
John wilkins aflirmeth the same
Yt is ordered y* w'm Bybby shall keepe the
Come now in his handes, and y* phetplace
Close shall send the Tobacco to Parks mother
in England
Yt is ordered y* p'vost marshall shall haue
for every arest for his Fee two pownde of
Tobacco and one halfe a bushell of Come
Thomas Bum and John Rowe swome and examined saith that
there was thre acres and a halfe of Come w
have receved
oin w'^^ they did estimat to be five barrells
of Come damage, five barrells of Come
and one barell of Pease and beanes but
wherther it was spoyled by swyne or no they
know nott
M' Blayny hath agreed to paye George Fryer & Addam
Dixson forty pownd of Tobacco towards there loss
in the Come
(To be Continued)
REVOLUTIONARY ARMY ORDERS. 293
REVOLUTIONARY ARMY ORDERS
For the Main Army under Washington 1778-1779
(From the Originals in the Collection of the Virginia Histor-
ical Society)
(Continued)
B. O. Oct' 25t'» 79
The Inhabitants having Requested That no more wood may
be Cut from off the Land, from whence the Brigade hath hither-
to been Supplyed. The Brigade Q. M. will Derect that in
future the wood that may be wanting, While the Brigade Oc-
cupies its present Possion be Cut from off the follow'g Lots
Viz*, Cornelius Digroy's, Timothy Allistead and Gilberts John-
son's Lots all of which Lots adjoin the present Encamp* on the
West Side he will apply to M"" Vaskey who will shew him the
Lots.
Geo. Gibson — Colo.
Command* Gen'l Muhl'g. Brigade
D. O. Cacayett Oct' 25*^^ 79
F. O. L* Colo Ball
The fatigue party making fasheens &c. are to be Ogmented
to morrow morning to 200 men, to work in 5 Different party's,
Each to be Comm'* by a Cap'n 2 Sub's & 3 Serj*'.
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The Deputy Q. M. Gen'l will point out the Ground where
Each party is to work, and will furnish the Necessary Tools,
This party to be Relieved Every morning at Troop beating and
the Cap* Command'g. Each will follow Such Directions as
may be Given by Cap'n Hill who was appointed by a former
Order to Superintend this work.
For Police
Cap'n Cambell
For the Day
Adj* Sinton
S C P
For P.
1 Cap* Hamilton
For in G^
1
For Q' G"
1
For fati
3
James Harper
Cap* Hamilton Company Orderly
Book for 1779
D. 0. Cacayett
Thursday ocf 2Q'^ 79
F. 0.
L* Colo Hause
The' Conductors of each Brigade are to Make a Report Im-
mediately to the Commanding officers of Their Brigades how
the Artificers under their Command, has been Employ 'd for
the last week past, and they are to Continue to make Such Re-
port Weekly.
For Police
Capt Mc Elhiny(l)
For the day
Adj* Merewether
S C P
For picquet
1
For in G**
1 1
For Q^ Gd
For fatigue
3
D. A. 0. Oct'
26**'
12
o'clock
(1) John Mc Ilhaney, Captain of a Va. State regiment April 1777
to May 1781.
REVOLUTIONARY ARMY ORDERS. 295
The Division to be in the most perfect Readiness to march at
a moments Warning all the waggon horses as well as those be-
longing to the Artillary as others to be brough in by Day
break to morrow morning and kept with the waggons tUl farther
Orders
Rec<^ 27 at 7 o'clock A M
B. O. Oct^ 27*'^ 79
The Brigade will march precisely at 8 o'clock the Command'g
officers of Reg*^ are Requested to have Every thing to be put
in the most perfect Readiness that nothing may Retard the
march at the hour appointed
D. O. Cacayett Oct^ 27 ^^^ 79
The Gen'l to beat Immediately, the Assembly half an hour
after
The Division to march by the Right The Rout to Suffems all
the baggage to Go in the Rear — The Field officer of the day
will Call in his picquets And form a Rear Guard, he is to see that
every thing is brought up.
D. A. O. Suffem Oct^ 27^*^ 79
F. O. L* Col'o Gwatkins
The Troops are to incamp in the wood Near this place, And
are not to pitch their Tents — They are immediately to Draw
provision to Compleat them to the 3P* Included, which they
are to have Cooked this Evening
Every man fit for Duty is to march at 5 o'clock to morrow
morning
The Gen'l will beat at half past 4 Such men as are indisposed
and not fit for Actual Service Are to be left with the Baggage
Under Com'' of a field officer, who will call on Gen'l Woodford
for Instructions uhis Evening.
They Artillary with their waggons And the waggons wnth
Spare Ammunition for the Brigades are to march with the
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Troops, all the Rest of the Waggons and baggage are to be left.
The Officers will take out Such Articles as the want this Even-
ing that no Delay may happen in the morning. The Com-
mandants of Regm*^ are Desired to attend themselves to the
Alloting out of the Men that Remain And not to Sujffer any
to do so that are Capable of marching, nor any to march that
are weak and imable to do So.
B. O. Oct^ 27^'^ 79
Major Mitchel is appointed to do the duty of Brigade Major
and Inspector while Major Cabell is doing the Duty of Deputy
Adj * Gen'l and is to be obeyed & Respected Accordingly.
For the Day Adj* Cary S C P
For picquet 1 1
For in G^ 1
For Q' G^ 1
B. O. Oct' 28*'' 79
The Brigade to hold themselves in the most perfect Readiness
to march at a moments Warning & neither officer or Soldier to
be absent upon any pretence whatever
D- O. Pomton Oct' 28*^ 79
F- O- L* Col'o Dabney
The Troops will probably Remain upon the present Groimds
this night The will therefore make the Necessary preparation,
at the Same time holding themselves in Constant Readiness to
m.arch at the Shortest Notice.
The most effectual Method to be taken to prevent the men
from Stragling
REVOLUTIONARY ARMY ORDERS. 297
The F. O. of they day will Reconmter the Groirnd and place
his picquet.
P
Piquet 1
InG'i 1
Q'G'i 1
D. O. Pompton Oct'29*i'79
F. Officer Lieu* Col'o Alison
The mens Arms to be Carefully Examined & to be put in the
best of Order, also their flints & Amunition.
No Officer or Soldier to leave Camp on any pretence, But be
in Constant Readiness to march.
The Commanding officers of Reg*' to see that those men are
Supplyed with Shoes that are in the greatest want, That none
may have an Occation to Complain of being bear footed when
we Come to march.
For the Day
Ad
j* Bown
S
c
P
For picquet
1
1
1
D. 0. Pompton.
F.O.
Ocf
30*»> 79
Major
■ Stephens
The Troops to hold themselves in Readiness to march to mor-
row morning at [ 4 ? ] O'clock, The horses to be provided
with Forage to night as the may be kept in place.
D. O. Suffems Sunday Oct' 31"* 79
F. O. Major Lee
The Troops are to Continue their march by the Left with all
their Baggage The Rout of Stony point The Greatest Expe-
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dition to be used in Drawing the Provision as the are to move
ofiE the Ground precisely at 3 o'clock.
For the Day
Adj* Merewether
D. O. Cacayett Nov. P* 79
F. O. Col'o Gist
The Rest of the Shoes in possession of Lieu* Moten to be
Divided this Evening in proportion To the Strenght of each
Corps. Including the Artillary The Regimental paymasters will
apply Accordingly.
The Division to hold themselves in Readiness to march at a
moments warning, But not to Strick their Tent 'till beating of
the Gen'l. The Division to be Inspected on Wednesday & Thurs-
day Next Begining with the 2<i Virg'a Reg* on Wednesday
morning at 9 o'clock.
For police
For the Day
Cap* Tho^ Ewell
Adj*Cary
S
C
P
For picquet
For in G^^
Q'G^
■}
3
D. 0. Cacayett Nov^ 2^^ 79
F. O.
Brigade
For Police
For the Day
For Picquet
Q^G'i
Col'o Nevell
Major Mitchel
Cap* Boswell
Adj* Robertson
G. O. Head Q" Moores house, Oct^ 20*^ 1779
REVOLUTIONARY ARMY ORDERS. 299
Every Reg* that has more marqies Horseman's Tents, Sol-
diers Tents than the proportion directed in Gen'l Orders of the
21^^ of may Last must Immediately Deliver them over to their
Brigade Q"' M"" who are to forward them to Col'o Hay at Fish-
kill landing.
D. O. Cacayett. Nov' Z^ 79
A Gen'l Court martial of the Line will Set Next Thursday
at 10 O Clock A, M. at the Garrison of West Point For the
Trial of Cap* Kirkpatrick (2), all Evidences and persons Con-
cerned to attend The Trial at Said time & place.
B. O. Nov' 3^ 79
A Brigade Court martial Set this day at 10 o'clock, for the
Trial of Such prisoners as Shall be brought before them. Lievi*
Colo Allison will preside
D. O. Cacayett Wednesday Nov' 3^^ 79
F. O. Colo Brent
Brigade Major Croghan
The Division to march to morrow morning at 8 o'clock, By
the Left The Rout for Stoney point. The Gen'l to beat 7 and
the Tents and Baggage to be immediately packed up.
The Forage masters to be perticular Carcfull in the manner
of Issuing of Forage. To Give out agreeable to Gen'l Regula-
tion and not to Suffer Officers batemen or waggoners to take any
more than the States Allowance on any pretence whatever, as
(2) Abraham Kirkpatrick— 1st Lieutenant 8th Va., March 22d, 1776;
Regimental Adjutant, April 2d, 1777; Captain, August 10th, 1777; trans-
ferred to 4th Va. Sept. 14, 1778, and served to the close of the war.
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the will be made answerable to their Conduct in this particu-
lar.
The Difficulty in procuring forage makes it Necessary tha*
the Greatest Oconemy Shotdd be Observed in that article. Th^
Col's and Other F. Officers are Requested to take notice of th^
manner of Issuing in Each Brigade, And to Report to the Com"
m'g Officer any waste that may be made.
1 Sub. 1 Serj* & 16 privates to march immediately as a
Guard to the Virg'a Clothing Com'y on from Tren Town — The
Officer to Call on Gen'l Woodford for Instructions.
The Majors of Brigades will attend daily at the Deputy
Adj*« Gen'ls Q" for orders at 12 o'clock.
A Court of Inquiry from the Division, Consisting of a field
officer 2 Cap** 2 Subs to Set to morrow to inquire into a Late
Dispute between Cap* Stocks of the 2^ Reg* and M"' Thornton
Taylor Conductor to Gen'l Woodfords Brigade.
The president will make a Report of the proceedings to the
Command 'g officer of the Division.
For police Capt Tabb
For the Day Adj* Bown
S C P
For picket 1
For in Gd 1
For Q' C* 11
D. O. Cacayett Thursday Nov' 4*'" 79
F. O. Lieu* Col'o Gwaskins (3)
Brigade Major Mitchel
A Guard of 1 Sub. 1 Serj* & 15 men to be left on the Ground
to take Care of the Forage untill the waggons Can be Sent for
(3) Lt. Col. Gaskins is evidently intended.
REVOLUTIONARY ARMY ORDERS. 301
it. If there's any Baggage that Cannot be Carried with the
Troops it must be Brought up in the Same manner, The Com-
manding officer of the Regm*' it belong to, Leaving proper
Guard to take Care of it. The Assembly to beat at 10 o'clock
and the Troops to begin their March immediately
For police Captain Lamb
For the Day Adj* Merewether
S C P
For picket 1
For in G"^ 1
Q' Guard 1
D. A. O. Nov 4*^ 79
The Gen'l to beat half past Six the Assembly half past 7 when
the Troops are to march to their place of Encampm* which will
be Shewn to them by the Deputy Q. M. Gen'l.
D. O. Havarstraw NoV 5**^ 79
F. O. L* Colo. Dabney
B. Major Craughan
for police Cap* Tabb
For the day Adj* Gary
D. A. O. Nov^ 5*^ 79. 6 o'clock P. M.
200 men properly officered to Employed tomorrow in making
Fasheen &c. Under the Directions of Cap'' Hill agreeable to a
former order. They are to parade at 8 o 'clock.
The Same Number to be furnished daily imtill farther orders.
The D. Q. M. Gen'l will furnish Tools and point out the Ground
for the Different parties to work.
The Distruction of Chimleys or Seting fire to any Conven-
iencys that is made while The Troops lay at an Encampm* is
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Positively forbid in future, And the officers Commanliing Reg*'
are Requested to see that the fires are put out before we
march that no Damage may be Done to the neighbourhood
thereby
B. O. Nov' 5'^ 79
The Court martial whereof Lieu* Colo. Allison was president
is Disolved and prisoners now in the provost to be sent for by
their respective Reg*^ where they are to be Tried.
D. O. Havarstraugh Nov' 6**^ 1779
F. O. Lieu* Colo. AlHson
B. Major Mitchel
One F. officer, 3 Captains & 6 Subs with 200 men are to Go
upon fatigue to morrow morning at 8 o'clock to Stoney point.
They will Draw provision to Compleat them for 3 Days when
a party of the Same Strenght is to Relieve them — The Com-
mand'g officer will take his Directions from Colo. Gouvian the
Engineer — A sufficient niunber of Tents to Cover the party
must be Drawn from the Division, by the D. Q. M. G. and Sent
Down in the waggon these Tents will Remain so long as a fiti-
gue party will Continue to work these Tools will be furnished
by the Engineer, A Return to be Given in this afternoon of all
the Carpenters in the Division who are wanting to work at Ston-
ey point while the Division Remains here only The Engineer
has promised that these Artificers shall have his order for addi-
tional pay & Rations.
The Muster M. will be Ready to muster the Division on mon-
day the Eight Instant beginning on the Right of Gen'l Wood-
fords Brigade at 7 Oclock in the morning and on the Right of
Gen'l Muhlenbergs at 1 o'clock in the afternoon.
REVOLUTIONARY ARMY ORDERS. 303
The Officers will have Every thing in Readiness accordinglv.
For fatigue Colo. Russell
For Police Cap* Nobody
For the Day Adj* Robertson
D. O. Havarstraw Nov' 7''' 79
F. O. Major Clark
B. Major Croughan
The field Officers of the Division are Requested to meet at
Gen'l Woodfords Quarters to morrow morning at 10 o'clock.
For Police
Captain Brakenrige
For the Day
Adjt
Bown
S C
P
For Picquet
inC
1
Q'G'i
1
Fatigue
1
3
5 Total
D. A. O. Nov' 7*'' 79 6 Oclock P. M.
The Division to hold themselves in the most Perfect Readiness
to march at a moments warning. The Q. M. G. Department to
have every thing Ready —
D. O. Havartraugh monday Nov' 8"' 79
F. O. M. Webb
B. Major Mitchel
B. O. Nov S*'' 79
As a General Inspection will talce place in a few days, The
Gen'l Requests of the Comm'g officers of Regiments will use
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Every Method in their power to have the Cloth'g of the men in
Repair that they may appear as neat and Direct as possible.
P. Mtihlenberg B. G.
For PoHce Cap* Winston
For the Day Adj * Lington
S C P
Picquet 0
InGd
1
Fatigue 3
GENEALOGY. 306
GENEALOGY
THE BEVERLEY FAMILY
(Continued)
34. Carter^ Beverley (Robert-*) was bom in 1774, and died Feb. 10,
1844. He was a Justice of Culpeper County in 1799 and afterwards lived
in Augusta Covinty. He married Jane, daughter of Ralph Wormley, of
"Rosegill," Middlesex County.
Issue: 42. Eleanor (The "Carter Tree" says she married Goodall;
but a newspaper in 1820 gives a notice of the marriage of "Eleanor W.
daughter of Carter Beverley" and Francis Gildart of Mississippi; 43.
Rebecca married John Meade; 44. Elizabeth B. married Captain Ed-
ward B. Randolph; 44. Ann T. married Dr. Carter Randolph; 45. Rob-
ert^, died without issue; 45a. William® married Crain;46. Carter*.
35. Robert^ Beverley (Robert*), of "Blandfield," Justice of Middle-
sex 1795, and of Essex; married Jane, daughter of Col. John Tayloe, of
"Mt. Airy," Richmond County.
Issue: 47. William B.®, of "Blandfield," died unmarried; 48. Maria,
married Dr. Clarke; 49. Rebecca Tayloe, died Sept. 28, 1822; 50.
J. Bradshaw® (of whom later); 51. Jane, died Sept. 28, 1822, aged 17
years; 52. Rolserta married William Lightfoot.
38. Peter Randolph^ Beverley (Robert*). In a suit in Augusta Co.,
Va., dated 1802 he is styled "late of Bordeaux, France, but now of
York County, England." Like many Americans he had probably tried
a mercantile venture at Bordeaux, but in 1802 was with his brother
William in Yorkshire. He married, possibly at Bordeaux, Lovely St.
Martin, and returned to Virginia.
Issue: 53. Eglantine, married Robert Randolph; 54. Peter"; 56.
Amarylis; 57. Stanislaus^, died unmarried; 58. Euphroisie; 59. Con-
stantine*, born 1811, died Jan. 12, 1872, at New Orleans, where he had
lived thirty-four years.
39. McKenzie^ Beverley (Robert*) of Spotsylvania Co. married
Isabella Gray.
Issue: 60. Robert^, died unmarried; 61. Byrd', died unmarried; 62.
William®, 63. Lovely, married Brown; 64. Francis C.', Clerk of Spot-
sylvania County 1875-1881, married Gale, and had issue: Lucy^,
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William^, and Berta'; 65. James ^, married Shemansky and had
issue: Louisa^ and Belle^; 66. Tucker 8.
50. J. Bradshawo Beverley (Robert^), married Jane Peter.
Issue: 67. Sarah, married Edward Turner; 68. Robert ''^ (of whom
later); 69. Rebecca, married Thomas Henderson; 69. Elizabeth, mar-
ried Brigadier General Montgomery D. Corse, C. S. A; 70. William^,
married Fanny Gray (and had issue: Bradshaw^, William^ and Robert**);
71. Mary, married Arthur Chichester.
68. Col. Robert^ Beverley (J. Bradshaw^), of "Blandfield," and of
Fauquier County. He was an officer in the Confederate army. President
of the Virginia State Agricultural Society, and was an agriculturist of
wide note and large estates. He married Jane, daughter of John Hill
Carter, of "Falkland."
Issue: 72. Eliza, married Stevens Mason; 73. Bajmton 8; 74. Virginia
married Rev. John McGill; 75. William*, married Mary, daughter of
Richard H. Carter; 77. Hill*; 78. Rebecca, married William Her-
bert of Baltimore; 79. Robert*, married Richardetta, daughter of Rich-
ard H. Carter; 80. Bradshaw*.
There are, of course, later generations of these lines, not included in
this genealogy.
(To be Continued)
SLAUGHTER FAMILY
(Compiled by the late John S. Carpenter, Louisville, Ky.)
Arms: Argent, a saltire azure.
Crest: Out of a ducal coronet, or, an eagle's head between wings ad-
dorsed, azure, beaked or.
Motto: Invictae Fidelitatis Praemium.
The above described arms are found on a seal to a bond bearing date
of 1685, signed by William Slaughter, High Sheriff of Essex County, Va.
They correspond with the arms of the Slaughters of Gloucester and Wor-
cester in England, as given by Burke in his "Landed Gentry."
The Slaughters were among the earlier settlers in Virginia. There
were two of the name, John and William, in Virginia prior to 1620. Wil-
liam was killed in the great Indian Massacre of March 22, 1622.
GENEALOGY. 307
1. John Slaughter had numerous grants of land, by purchase and
for the importation of immigrants, between the years 1620 and 1635.
He had three sons. [This is only a conjecture. — Editor.]
2. I. Francis.
II. William. — He was High Sheriff of Essex County in 1685.
He married Phoebe, daughter of Colonel Toby Smith
of Rappahannock, and widow of William Hodgkins,
who died in 1673. She married as her third husband
William Peachey and died in 1710, her will having
been proved in Essex County on April 10 of that year.
William Slaughter left no issue.
III. Richard.— He had grants of land in 1652, 1655, 1679, 1689,
etc. No record of his marriage or of his having left
issue.
2. Capt.mn Francis Slaughter, ^ (John^) the eldest son of John, was
bom about 1630 and died 1656-7. He was Captain of Militia, Justice for
Rappahannock, a planter and merchant. He married about 1652, Eliz-
abeth Underwood, sister of Colonel William Underwood, and his
wife Margaret. Elizabeth (Underwood) Slaughter married secondly.
Colonel John Catlett, Presiding Justice for Rappahannock, who was
killed by the Indians in 1671, while defending a frontier fort. In 1672-3,
the twice widowed Elizabeth Underwood married the Rev. Amory
Butler. She died in 1673. The following is an abstract of her will:
Legatees: "son, Francis Slaughter, all the furniture of my chamber,
except a chest of drawers, which I give to my daughter, Sarah, and a
close-stool to my son, John Catlett — to son, Francis Slaughter, all goods,
money, plate, and rings, mentioned in an accoimt in the hands of Mr.
Daniel Gaines; also one negro boy, and an equal share of my stock of
pewter, brass and iron also a great chair, a small couch, a chest, and such
other things in the house as my mother gave me by her will, — to daughter
Elizabeth, the bed and furniture now in the dining room, the press and
cushion — great looking glass, drawing table and Turkey Carpet, and my
childbed linen, blankets, and fine basket, my wedding ring, my biggest
diamond ring, gilded bodkin, necklace with the biggest pearls, a small
bible, silver sucking bottle and the small Cabinet. To daughter, Sarah,
two of my biggest stone rings, the small pearl necklace, silver bodkin,
my new trunk, napkin press, a small bible, small testament, a dram cup,
my wedding ring and an oval table. — to son, John, a small diamond ring,
the map in the dining room, a rapier, a great cutlash, a pair of silver but-
tons, a pair of silver buckles, and the antimonial cup. — to son, William,
a small cutlash, a ring with the stone enameled blue, a silver seal. — to
two daughters, all my wearing apparel, clothes and linen. — to sons, John
and William, all my books, according to the inventory. — to sons, John and
William, and two daughters, all of my plate, except three spoons, and also
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to them, all pewter, brass, linnen and other household stuff not otherwise
bequeathed. — to three sons, each a carbine. — to the four children of hus-
band, John Catlett, a gray mare and furniture; to cousin, Wm. Underwood
the elder, one colt. — to cousin, Himiphrey Booth, a chest and goods which
were my mothers. — to cousin, Catherine Booth, a silver candle cup which
was her grandmother's — to sister Pierce, a mourning ring. My executors
shall supply what tobacco may be needed for my children's education
in England, according to my deceased husband's will. What money
remains in the hands of Messrs. Gifford and Mttnford in London, to be
used for the purchase of furniture for my son Francis Slaughter, in lieu
of what his father-in-law owed him — Beloved husband, Amory Butler,
executor, and my cousin, Captain Thos. Hawkins, my brother, Edward
Rowzee and Mr. Daniel Gaines, overseers of my will — to brother Booth's
children, several cattle. — to beloved husband, Amory Butler, a bed,
furniture, and a mourning ring."
Captain Slaughter's will was proved in Essex County in 1657. Legacies
to his mother-in-law, Margaret Upton, (she had married as her second
husband, Lt. Col. John Upton); to brother-in-law. Col. Moore Faunt-
leroy, rapier and saddle mare; to brother-in-law, Humphrey Booth, cloth
for suit of clothes to his overseer, etc; wife Elizabeth, executrix, issue:
3. 1. Francis.
3. Francis Slaughter,^ (Francis^ John i) only son of Captain Francis
and Elizabeth Underwood Slaughter was bom in Essex Coimty about
1653. He was a planter in Richmond Coiinty, and died in 1718, his will
dated Nov. 6, 1718, having been proved on March 4, 1718-9. He directs
that his goods made over to his wife by a deed of gift before marriage
be well and truly paid, and that as, with his wife's consent he had sold
a negro called Frank, given her by that deed, which was in lieu of dower,
he directs that she be given a negro called Caesar. His will further
provides that his wife be given corn in the ground and other necessaries
for the maintenance of her family. All the rest of his estate, real and
personal he bequeathed to his daughters, Mary and Elizabeth. Son-
in-law, John Taylor, sole executor. By his wife, Margaret Hudson,
whom he married about 1679, Francis Slaughter has issue:
4. L Robert. [Though most probably a son of Francis, no re-
cord evidence of the fact is given. — Ed.]
IL William. He was a beneficiary xmder the will of his father's
half-brother. Col. John Catlett, the second,
in. Martha (or Margaret). She was probably the wife of
John Taylor, son-in-law and executor named in Francis
Slaughter's will.
IV. Mary.
V. Elizabeth.
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4. Robert Slaughter* (Francis 3-2johni), was born about the year
1680. He was a prosperous planter of Essex County, where he lived and
died. He had extensive grants of land in Spottsylvania County (1719
and 1723), part of which was transferred to his sons during his lifetime,
and the remainder bequeathed to them by his will. He married about the
year 1700 Frances Anne Jones, daughter of Lt. Colonel Cadwalader
Jones, and grand-daughter of Richard Jones, a wealthy merchant of
London, and the owner of a considerable landed estate in County Devon-
shire, England. The following is an abstract of Robert Slaughter's
will, dated Feb. 5, 1725, and proved in Essex County on August 16, 1726:
"To loving wife Frances Slaughter, two negro men named Jack and
Tony; to son Francis one thousand acres of land lying in the forks of
the Rappahannock River, one negro boy named Fanny, one negro girl
named Cate and their increase; to son Robert one negro woman named
Moll and her two children named Harry and Toney and their increase, one
cow and calf; to son Thomas, one tract of land lying at the Little Moun-
tains containing two hundred and fourteen acres, one tract of land lying at
the Black Walnut Rim, and one tract of land lying on the Moimts Creek
containing three hundred acres, also negro boy named Ben, negro girl
Beck and their increase; remainder of estate to loving wife Frances and
to sons Francis and Thomas. Executor Francis Slaughter.
Robert and Frances Anne Slaughter had issue:
5. I. Francis.
6. II. Robert.
7. III. Thomas of Caroline County.
5. Colonel Francis Slaughter* (Robert*, Francis'-^, John*), eld-
est son of Robert and Frances Anne (Jones) Slaughter was bom in Essex
County about 1701. After his fathers death he removed to Culpeper,
where he died in 1766, his will dated Sept. 18, 1765, with codicil dated
Sept. 22, 1765, having been proved in May 1766. He was a large land-
owner in Culpeper and Orange. He was commissioned Captain of Militia
on Feb. 2, 1730; later Colonel of Militia, Justice, Vestryman, Church
Warden, etc. He married on June 3, 1729, Ann Lightfoot by whom he
had issue:
8. I. Francis.
9. II. John.
III. Reuben— bom 1733.
10. IV. Cadwalader.
V. Frances, bom 1737. She married Captain William Ball,
Vestryman of St. Mark's Parish. He was the son of
Samuel 3 (William 2- *) Ball and of Ann Catharine (Tay-
loe) Ball, and a cousin of Mary Ball, the mother of
Washington.
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VI. Daughter. She married Edward Thomas. Their only
son Edward Thomas removed to Nelson Cotinty,
Kentucky, and represented that County in the Kentucky
House of Representatives in 1793. His wife was Susan-
nah Beall, daughter of Walter Beall, a member of the
first Constitutional Convention of Kentucky. Issue:
Lucinda, married Dr. Wm. Elliott of New Haven,
Ky. Amanda, married Mr. Bamett.
(To be Continued)
THE ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ROLFE
WITH NOTICES OF SOME CONNECTED FAMILIES.
ROLLING OF YORKSHIRE AND LONDON
Cudworth's "History of Bolton and Bowling" (Bradford, 1891) con-
tains a considerable amoimt of information in regard to the early history
of the Boiling family, which was long resident in the vicinity of Brad-
ford and Bolton. The author states that the spelling "Bowling" is a
modernisation. The first mention he gives of the Boiling family is in
a poll or head tax list of the inhabitants of the township of Boiling, in
the year 1379. First in the list appears Johannes de Bollyng, Esquier,
& uxor [wife] Vjs Vlljh (6sh-8d.)
"The principal contributor, who in fact paid more than all the re-
mainder of the inhabitants of the township, was John de Boiling. He is
therefore styled 'esquire.' The Boilings were not only the first family
of any importance which took its name from the township, but it was of
considerable repute in this part of Yorkshire generally. The proofs of
this fact are numerous. From evidences collected by Mr. Empsall, and
presented to the Bradford Antiquarian Society, illustrating the entire
history of this family, we learn that towards the close of the twelth cen-
tury one Tristram Boiling was in the service of King John, and was
largely concerned in his interests, and as reward he received property
in Boiling. To this circumstance is ascribed the rise of the family.
In Kirby's Inquest (1296) William de Boiling is described as holding
three carucates of land in Boiling, and shortly afterwards he was de-
scribed as lord of the manor, which his descendants held for several
centuries, and two of them gave common of pasture and a grant of land
in Boiling to Kirtstall Abbey. Part of this land is supposed to be the
site of Burnett Field. There is also evidence of land in Boiling having
been granted to Kirkstall Abbey as early as the reign of King John.
In a copy of Parliamentary Writs we find the following entries: 'Wil-
liam de Boiling certified, pursuant to writ tested at Clepstone, 5th March,
1316, as lord of the township of Boiling, in the county of York.'
m
GENEALOGY. 311
'Johannes de Boiling, one of the Commissioners of Array, in the Wa-
pentake of Morley, in the county of York. Commission tested at York
25th September, 1318.'
By the marriage of Robert Boiling to Elizabeth, daughter of Roger
Thornton, in 1349, the Boiling estate was increased by the addition of
the manors of Thornton, AUerton and Denholme. In the survey of the
manor of Bradford taken in 1342, the Boiling family appears somewhat
prominently in connection with the barter and sale of property in
Bradford.
Passing over a century, we come upon an interesting episode in the
past history of Boiling, namely, the attainder for high treason of one
Robert Boiling and the confiscation of his estates. In the Wars of the
Roses many of the landowners of this neighbourhood were implicated,
and none more deeply than Robert Boiling of Boiling Hall. Like many
others of Yorkshire he espoused the cause of the Lancastrians, under
the banner of Lord Clifford of Skipton Castle, and was at the battle of
Towton on Palm Sunday, March 29th, 1461. In that sanguinary encounter
36,000 men were slain, and the Lancastrians were utterly defeated.
The result was very disastrous to the Boilings. For the part taken in
it by Robert Boiling, he was convicted of high treason, attainted by
order of Parliament, and deprived of his estates, the manor of Boiling
being made over to a partisan of the King named Thomas Radclyfe.
John James, in his 'History of Bradford,' gives an interesting account of
this event, and quotes the following extract from a petition of Robert
Boiling to King Edward IV. in 1475: "Humbly beseeching your Highness,
your true liegeman, Robert Boiling, in the Shire of York, gentilman,
sheweth, that in the Parliament holden at Westminster, the 4th Novem-
ber, in the first year of your Highness's reign, the said Robert was at-
tainted of high treason, and that his lands were forfeited from the 4th
March preceding; that suppliant was never against your Highness in any
field or journey, except on Palme Sunday, in the first year of your most
noble reigne, whereto he was dryven, not of his oune proper wille, nor of
malice towards your Grace, but oonly by compulsion, and by the most
drad proclamations of John, then Lord Clyfford, under whose daunger
and distresse the lyvelode of your suppliant lay."
Notwithstanding that letters of pardon were granted him, Robert
Boiling and his family of ten children were reduced to great straits
from the loss of his estates, but these he subsequently recovered and
added much to them.
Robert Boiling made his will at Boiling Hall, October, 1485, desiring
to be buried before the high altar of Bradford Church, to which he left
benefactions. To Amica his daughter he left 10. The residue of his
personalty, in three parts, one to James, William, Umphrey, Raynbron,
and Troilus, his sons; one for masses for his soul; and a third to Isabel,
his wife. The testator thus disposes of his lands: —
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'I have enfeofTed Edward Goldsborough, one of the barons of our Lord
the Kyng, of his escheaur; Ed. Redmanye, one of the esquiers of his body:
Ed. Cresacre, parson, of Arksey; and James Boiling, my son, in the
manors of Boiling, Thornton, and Denholme, and of all the haHendole
of my manor of Haynsworth — to myself for my life. In suffrance, Isabel,
my wyfe, to have all the yerely issue of the halfendole of the landes at
Mikill Boiling, and to have her dower of Haynsworth. I do order a
gyft to Jamys, William, Umfrey, Raynbron, and Troilus Boiling, my
sons of 40s., by the yere out of Thornton, Hethlee, and Sowden; after
their decease to remayne to Trystram Boiling, my son and heir, and the
heires males of his bodie.'
Of two of the sons of Robert Boiling— Tristram and Raynbron — inter-
esting evidences exist. Raynbron, the 3^ounger brother, was bailiff of
the manorial property at Bradford vested in the Duchy of Lancaster,
and held a lease of the manorial mills, &c, which in the 'Rolls Chron-
icles' is set forth in the following terms: — "1448, 8 March. — Lease to
farm by the advice of the Coimcil of the Duchy of Lancaster, for 7 years
from Michaelmas last past before date of present letters, to Raynbron
Boleling, yeoman of the King's Crown, of the cloth fulling and corn mill,
toll, stallage, and agistment of cattle in Bradford Bank, with the per-
quisites and shops beneath the Halls of Pleas of the town and Lordship of
Bradford, Co. York, at an annual rent of ixl. viijd."
In making the most of his bailiwick, Raynbron incurred considerable
odium among the inhabitants of Bradford, and a suit was instituted in
the Duchy Court for extortion and wrongdoing, of which the following
is the substance, extracted from the Duchy of Lancaster Pleadings in
the Record Office: —
'18, Hen. VII. — Richard Tempest and others, freeholders and King's
tenants of Bradford township, and plaintiffs. Raynbron Boiling, the
King's bailiff, and others defendants. Deputed titles to lands, tolls of
markets, partiality of kin, &c.
Contra, Pleading —
"Raynbron Boiling, bailiff of Bradford, and Godfrey Foljambe, Feo-
dary of Tickill Honor, plaintiffs. Rich. Tempest, defendant, and
others.
To the Right Worshipful Chancellor Duchy of Lancaster.
"We, Richard Tempest and Robert Leventhorp, esquires; Thos.
Thornton, Wm. Rookes, John Rookes, Thos. Ellys, John Rawson, John
Feld, James Webster, Thomas Bower, Wm. Bancke, Robt. Ledgard,
Richd. Bancke, and others, freeholders and the King's tenants of the
township of Bradford; John Threapland, John Ellingsworth, Rich.
Hollins, John Whitacre, Thos. Aldersley, &c., freeholders and King's
tenants of AUerton; John Wilkinson, Thos. Roper, Wm. Byrkenshaw
GENEALOGY. 313
&c., tenants and freeholders of Thornton; Robt. Midgley, William
Mortymer, of Clayton; Richard Broadly, Thos. Stead, of Bowling;
Christopher Sharp, James Sharp, Christopher Thornton, &c., of Horton;
Joseph Thornton, Roger Thornton, &c., of Heaton; William Northrop,
Laurence Ellynworth, William Jowett, Thos. Mortymer, Richard Rodes,
&c., of Manningham, deposed that whereas three f aires have been held
and kept within the lordship which were a great resort of merchants,
chapmen, and others of the King's lieges of divers parts for the purpose
of selling their wares to the great weal of the King's tenants of the said
lordship and to the country adjoining. That Raynbron Boiling, the
bailiff of the said lordship, wrongfully, by him and his deputies, taking
excessive and imreasonable tolls of your said orators and others th'fe
King's tenants and others the King's lieges resorting to the said faires,
the said merchants and chapmen have withdrawn themselves and their
merchandise from the said faires, and that thereby the said faires are
greatly decreased, to the great hurt of all the King's tenants and ter-
mers and freeholders of the said lordship; and also that the said Rayn-
bron Boiling, by reason of levying excessive mulcture at the King's
mylnes to the great hurt of your orators and taking the cattel of your
orators and keeping them in secret places, so that your said orators
cannot gain knowledge of them, and after keeping them a certain time
claiming the said cattel as waifs and strays to his own uses; that in the
16th year of Hen. VII. he caused certain women to shear twenty sheep
of the King's tenants so that they were not known again by their owners;
that he will not suffer any sheep of your orators to be imclipped after
Whit-Sunday, but if there are the said bailiff will take them and cause
them to be clipped, claiming and taking the wool to his own uses and to
the great hurt of the King's tenants; that on the 5th of June, in the 17
of Hen. VII. he took from Ellen, late wife of Tristram Boiling, five ewes;
from Elizabeth Bristowe, two kye; and from William Wright one cow;
that one William Gordon, a Scotch chapman, who was coming from Hal-
ifax with three packs of wool, was waylaid by the said bailiffs upon Man-
ningham Moor, because the said chapman ought to have come through
Bradford and paid toll, and cast him down and beat him, and caused
him to pay 6s. 8d. and above in money.'
Raynbron's answer, which is filed in the Duchy records, states: — 'That
there were two very great faires every year at Bradford, on the day of
the Feast of St. Andrew, and the day of St. Peter in Cathedra, three
days every fair — that he had to attend upon the King's daughter, the
Queen of Scots, into Scotland, and in his absence Sir Richard Tempest
went into the Tolbooth of Bradford and threatened his servants (the
servants of the King's bailiff) if they took toll. That the inhabitants
of Clayton, at the instigation of Sir Richard Tempest, waylaid John
Aldworth, whom the said bailiff had sent to gather toll, and beat him
unmercifully. So that he had been little able to do any work since;
that the said Tempest had ordered all his servants and retainers, and
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had encouraged all others, to beat down the bailiff's servants when they
gathered toll, and declared that no man should bear rule in Bradford
but himself.'
This interesting episode is illustrative of the exactions resorted to
by the emissaries of King Henry VII., who made use of them to extort
money and to heap up wealth for his own ends, which was the ruling
object of his existence.
(To be Continued)
THE POINDEXTER FAMILY
(Continued)
Several accounts which are expected from various members of the fam-
ily have not yet been received; but will be printed later.
In the "List of Revolutionary Soldiers" published by the Virginia
State Library in 1912, the following Poindexters appear: Gabriel Poin-
dexter, Jacob Poindexter, John Poindexter, Jonathan Poindexter, Joseph
Poindexter (Captain Bedford Co. Militia), Levil (Lovel) Poindexter,
and Richard G. Poindexter.
James Poindexter, who was bom in Virginia in 1765, married May
Thompson, of Virginia, in 1801. Can any one give the name of his father ?
James Poindexter, has descendants in California.
Miscellaneous Notes.
Deed, dated March 7, 1733, and recorded in Prince William County,
from Thomas Poindexter, house-carpenter, of Hanover County, Convey-
ing land in Prince William County, which had been bequeathed to him
by Rev. James Brechin, late of Westmoreland County, by his will dated
August 19, 1721.
Will of Elizabeth Johnson, dated July 6, 1812, and proved in Louisa Co.
Sept. 14, 1812, names her grandchildren Lucy, Betty and Walles S. Poin-
dexter (their mother was dead) and her son-in-law John Poindexter.
Deed, Goochland County, May 1745, from Jolin Coles, of Henrico
Coimty to Jacob Poindexter, of James City County.
Deed, Goochland County, Feb. 1760, from Thomas Poindexter, of
Goochland, to Robert Jordan of same coimty.
Will of Benjamin Poindexter, of Cumberland County, dated Dec. 28,
1765, and proved June, 1766, gives his friends Littleberry Mosby and
Joseph Carrington his whole estate, including what he was to have from
his wife Sarah as her legacy.
Deed, 1750, from Philip Poindexter, of Cumberland County, to George
Nicholas conveying all of the land in Cumberland where said Poindexter
lived.
(To be Continued)
GENEALOGY. 315
THE TURNER FAMILY OF KING GEORGE COUNTY, &c.
(Continued)
On p. 108 of the January 1913 Magazine, George* Turner should be
9 instead of 5 and Richard* Turner should be 10 instead of 6. By an
accident the numbers of the children of Col. Thomas Turner were con-
fused. The fact that two of his daughters are numbered 8 and 9 will
cause no confusion as their names do not appear again.
9. George* Turner of "Nanzatico" married Caroline Pratt.
Issue: 33. John^, died unmarried, 34. George^, died unmarried: 35.
Thomas^, died unmarried, 36. Carolinus^ (of whom later).
10. Richard* Turner, of "Walsingham," King George Covmty, mar-
ried Alice Fitzhugh Pratt (sister of his brother's wife).
Issue: 37. Albert^, married Elizabeth Cary. Nelson, of Maryland (and
had one son Albert", who never married, and one daughter Elizabeth,
who married Judge Nathaniel B. Meade of Alexandria) ; 38. Richard H.^,
(of whom later); 39. Virginia Anne, married Charles Tayloe of "Oaken-
brow," King George Coimty (an estate once the property of Thomas Tur-
ner, of "Kinloch;" but sold to one of the Tayloe family); 40. Caroline,
married Drury Fitzhugh, of "Navarino," King George County; 41. Jane
Columbia, married Lt. William Taylor Smith, U. S. N., of "Canning,"
King George County, (a fine estate of 4000 acres); 42. George^, of Wal-
singham, married in 1870 Jane Charlotte Washington Fitzhugh, of "Mill-
bank," King George County; 43. Mary Louise married her first cousin,
Dr. John M. Robb, (whose mother was Maria Pratt) and had a number
of children; 44. Thomas^, never married.
11. Thomas B^. Turner of Jefferson Cotmty, married first Augusta
Brockenbrough (who died without issue), and secondly in 1827, at "White
Hall," King George County, Fenton, daughter of Gustavus B. Wallace,
and thirdly Lucy Buckner. Issue: 45. Thomas", C. S. A., killed in battle
46. Frances, married Dade; 47. daughter married Morton.
14. William Fauntleroy^ Turner, of Jefferson County, member of
the House of Delegates, 1843, 1844, 1845. He married first in 1845, Ellen,
daughter of Andrew Beime, of Monroe County; and secondly, Sydney
Patterson, of Baltimore (a niece of Madame Jerome Bonaparte).
Issue: (1st m.) 48. Ellen Beime, married John S. Saunders of Norfolk,
Lieutenant Colonel C. S. A., later of Baltimore; (2nd m.) Daughter,
married Donald Swann, of Baltimore.
24. Shirley Carter^ Turner, of Charleston, S. C, bom at "Shirley"
Feb. 21st, 1806, married Sarah Bascombe. Issue: 50. Selina; 51. Caro-
line; 52. Willaim8;53. Shirley"; 54. Lavinia.
25. Thomas Turner^, bom at "Marengo," Dec. 23rd, 1807, appointed
Midshipman U.S. N., 1825, Lieutenant 1835, Commander 1855, Captain
July 1862, Commodore December 1862, Rear Admiral 1868. During his
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long service in the navy he displayed much skill and gallantry. He mar-
ried Fanny Palmer and died at Glen Mills, Pa., March 24th, 1888. There
is a notice of him in Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography.
Issue: 55. Angela, married George W. Toland; 56. Julia, married Osgood
Wellsh; 57. Edward Palmer 2nd lieutenant 10th Cavalry, U. S. A., Dec.
18, 1871, resigned June 25, 1878; married his cousin Mary, daughter of
Edward C. Turner, and died Jan. 13, 1901, leaving two daughters; 58.
Jessie, married Henry Biddle of Philadelphia; 59. William, Officer U. S.
Marine Corps, married (and had issue) ; 60. Minnie, died in childhood.
26. William FiTZHUGH^ Turner, bom at "Eastern View," Sept. 28,
1809, married Jane Hall of Baltimore. Issue: 61. Marian, married William
Cerere; 62. Thomas 8, died without issue; 63. Lydia, married William
Blanchard; 64. Eliza; 65. William H.e killed in battle 1862; 66. Sophia
C; 67. Henry J. «; 68. Fitzhughe; 69. Horatio W.S; 70. Virginia.
(To be Continued)
NOTES AND QUERIES. 317
HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND
QUERIES
Capt. Roger Jones
In Bruce's Institutional History of Virginia Capt. Roger Jones is men-
tioned in a connection which I think does him great injustice. So far
as anything to the contrary appears, the character of Capt. Roger Jones
was above reproach, and there was never a breath of suspicion against
him, except for certain alleged "reports" recited in a letter of July 7,
1692, from Lieut-Gov. Francis Nicholson and seven members of his coian-
cil to the Lords of Trade and Plantations, ten years after the things are
alleged to have occurred, in which the evident purpose is to impair Capt.
Roger Jones' influence with the Commissioners of Customs for the Colony
in London. The letter has every earmark of having been dictated by
the vindictive and dominating spirit of Nicholson and signed by an in-
timidated or too easy acquiescing coimcil. In order to correctly estimate
a paper of this character it is necessary, first and above all things, to
consider the age in which it was produced. We know that this was an
age of intense feeling, of passionate acting, of incontinent and undiscrimi-
nating personal abuse, and governors and councillors, though they be men
of ever so great prominence, are nevertheless not exempt from the frail-
ties peculiar to men of the period in which they live. The letter was
signed by seven members of the council who were all probably, like
Edmund Jennings, partisans of the governor. The point we are making
is well stated by the editor of this magazine (Vol. VII., page 153), viz.:
"Nicholson was utterly unscrupulous in regard to the charges he made
— indeed no great importance should be attached to any defamation of
that period. A characteristic of the seventeenth and eighteenth cen-
turies, which all students of the time are aware of, is the curious absence
of any sense of responsibility or regard for the truth, when an enemy was
to be attacked. Cases occur repeatedly in the court records of the period,
not only in the colonies but in England, where a man would make most
scurrilous charges, and, when brought to trial, promptly and publicly
confess that all of his statements were false."
For a lengthy account of the methods employed by Nicholson to blast
the reputation of those who by any chance incurred his displeasure, see
the petition (Vol. III., pp. 173-182 of this Mag.) which resulted in his
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removal, and was presented against him in 1704 by Philip Ludwell, John
Lightfoot, Matthew Page, Benj. Harrison, Robert Carter and James
Blair, all members of the council. Philip Ludwell and Roger Jones were
close friends; in the latter 's will this bequest appears: "I give to my ten
friends hereinafter named the simie of twenty shillings apiece to buy each
of them a ring, that is to say Sr. Richard Haddock, Coll. Philip Ludwell,
etc."
The British Public Records Office shows that the following action was
taken on the governor's letter:
"Oct. 11. 2545. Journal of Lords of Trade and Plantations. * * *
Captain Roger Jones attended, and explaining that he intended nothing
against the Government of Virginia, was dismissed." So, the fiasco
ended.
The only exhibit referred to in the letter, "No. 1979," is a letter from
Roger Jones to Peter Perry, his agent in Virginia, and reads as follows:
"If the Government of Virginia insist on their duty on skins, and
nothing is done on our behalf by the English Government, order all our
skins to be packed in hogsheads and keep them till further orders.
The Commissioners of Customs have drawn up a very favorable report,
so that we can draw out our goods. Besides they have decided that no
law is in force in the Colony for more than a year without the Royal
Assent being then known, so that presumably all goods shipped after
the expiration of a year from the date of the law will be exempt.' '
In the governor's letter one of the complaints against Roger Jones is
that of "refusing to serve in any office, " which raises the question why
they would offer him other offices if he had been so imfaithful in the only
office he had held. The only possible explanation is their fear that in his
efforts to protect his property, Roger Jones either had, or would induce
the Commissioners of Customs to declare invalid an act designed to sup-
ply the governor and council with revenue, and that all the other things
were lugged in through spite and in the hope of injuring his influence with
the Commissioners.
While the governor's letter alleges but one instance in which Capt.
Jones was "reported" to have struck the King's colors to a pirate. Dr.
Bruce goes even the doughty old Virginia governor "several better,"
and says, in all seriousness: "His device, it appears, was to strike his
colors to the vessels of pirates, his motive in doing so which they soon
came to understand; and it was then their habit to dismiss him with a
great quantity of French wines and other costly goods." That is, the
pirates "got the habit"! All this is supposed to have occurred within a
period of probably not exceeding six months, for Roger Jones' commission
las captain of the sloop is dated May 28, 1683, and it is not probable that
he would sail until legally protected by a commission, and the sloop was
discharged November 29th following.
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The letter says that for his various derelictions Lord Culpeper
"tried to bring him to account." Now Roger Jones resided at Green
Spring with Lord Culpeper, during his entire residence in the colony,
from May, 1680, to May, 1685, when he returned to London, where he re-
sided until the day of his death. In the York County records we find this
entry, four months before he left the colony: "These are to certifie whom
it may conceme Y. Capt. Roger Jones & Mr. XXX Chisley intend God
willing for Old England by the first Ships." There was therefore no
conceivable reason why the entire machinery of the law should not have
been put in operation against him at any moment. If the statement is
true, it can only mean that Lord Culpeper inquired into the reports and
failed to find any evidence to sustain them.
There is reason to believe that Capt. Roger Jones lived in the colony,
as he lived in London both before and after he visited the colony, in such
state as reasonably became a gentleman of rank at the time. He had
his coach or chariot on which were emblazoned his coat of arms quarter-
ing his mother's and impaling his wife's arms. His coat of arms is re-
cognized as that of an ancient Welsh family named Ap John, which was
early seated in Nottinghamshire, where Roger Jones was married and
buried, where they owned valuable estates, and from which family the
College of Arms think he was descended. All the indicarions are that he
was possessed of a competent estate before he came to Virginia, and there
is nothing to indicate that it was enhanced in any extraordinary manner
during his residence in the colony.
Among the published letters of the elder Wm. Fitzhugh are several to
Roger Jones. One, dated Jan. 8, 1682-3, addressed to him at Green
Springs, requests his assistance in procuring for Fitzhugh's friend the
office of sheriff of his coimty. In another letter, after his return to Lon-
don, Fitzhugh acknowledges his indebtedness to Roger Jones for the fact
that he and George Brent had been deputed to look after the Lord Pro-
prietor's rents in Virginia. In another letter he desires Roger Jones to
"negotiate" for the office of sheriff "in fee or at least for life." So, it
appears that Capt. Roger Jones was a man of such standing and influence
in Government circles as to be selected by Wm. Fitzhugh as one most
likely to secure for him an appointment to an important office, and his
influence with the Commissioners of Customs might very well have been
feared by a man like Nicholson, and might very well have been the
motive for a vicious attack on him in 1692.
It is not necessary to insist, for the purpose of this contention, that
there may not have been reports concerning Roger Jones circulated by
some evil disposed person — what prominent man has escaped them! —
which were seized upon by the governor and council as a basis for their
representations; but it is contended that no evidence tending to prove the
truth of any report was offered or referred to by them or has since been
found, and that a man like Roger Jones should be deemed to be innocent
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even of suspicion until some evidence is forthcoming to call for a suspi-
cion. In the petition against Gov. Nicholson a request is made for a
commission to take proof of its statements, while in the letter against
Roger Jones the statements are not of matters claimed to be within the
personal cognizance of the signers — indeed Nicholson was not at the time
a resident of the colony — and it is not pretended that there was any ev-
idence to be had of the truth of the "reports." Dr. Bruce is asking the
readers of his history to believe, after more than two centuries have in-
tervened, that of which the governor and his coimcil tacitly admitted
there was no evidence on which to found a belief, an admissibn of which
appears to have been confirmed by an investigation conducted by Lord
Culpeper immediately after the things are said to have occurred.
Conceding everything that can be said for Francis Nicholson and the
men who composed his counciil, that he made an excellent governor, that
he was a man of such prominence and probity of character as to have been
twice appointed royal governor of Virginia, which is more than can be
said of any of the others who signed the paper against Roger Jones, and,
in view of the petition presented against Gov. Nicholson by Philip Lud-
well and other members of the council, men of as great prominence and
probity of character as any in the colony, it merely serves the more to
emphasize my main contention that however distinguished and above
reproach in other respects men of the period may have been, their ^ate-
ments concerning the character of those whom they were publicly at-
tacking are not to be trusted. Dr. Bruce is at liberty to chose either horn
of the dilemma. If he will accept as true the hear-say statements of
"reports" concerning the conduct of Capt. Roger Jones, because of the
prominence and character of the men who signed the governor's letter,
he must likewise accept as true the statements of Philip Ludwell and
others of equal prominence and character, as to matters of which they
claimed to be personally cognizant and ready to prove, viz., that, owing
to a peculiar frailty of men of the period, with which students of history
are abimdantly familiar, the methods resorted to by men of such ex-
cellent character as Gov. Francis Nicholson and those who measured up
to the standard of his approval, to blast the reputation of any one who
happened to incur their displeasure, were of the basest, most shameless
and most unscrupulous nature, which leaves Dr. Bruce without a sem-
blance of justification for the attitude he has assumed toward Roger
Jones.
L. H. Jones.
Edmund Pendleton
Mr. Hugh Blair Grigsby in "The Virginia Convention of 1776," gives
Edmund Pendleton's public career as Burgess, Member of Convention,
Speaker of House of Delegates and Judge. He states that the dates, and
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some of the facts in his sketch are taken from a manuscript account of
himself, written by Pendleton in his latter days. Mr. Grigsby adds, that
this may be seen in the archives of the Virginia Historical Society.
But it has gone astray, and is not there now. Luckily, however, it is
also printed in the Norfolk, Virginia, Beacon, of October 3, 1834. Camp-
bell's History of Virginia, with Mr. Grigsby, evidently follows this ac-
count for dates, and gives Pendleton's birth as in the year 1721; also the
fact that he was bound as an apprentice to Colonel Benjamin Robinson,
of Caroline County, Virginia, while in his fourteenth year.
I have an entry from the Order Book for Caroline County, Virginia,
which throws some additional light upon the obscure early history of
this remarkable Virginian. From this his father's name will be learned.
If Pendleton was, as stated by himself, in his fourteenth year when bound
as an apprentice, he must have been bom in 1720, instead of 1721, or
was a year older at that time, than he imagined himself. The indenture
is also interesting as showing that Pendleton was bovind to learn "all
things belonging to a Clerks office."
J. H. Whitty.
"Virginia:
At a Court held for Caroline County on Friday the 14th day March ,
1734.
Present.
William Woodford Thos. Catlett \
John Martin Wm. Taliaferro r^^' J"^^''^^^-
Its ordered and considered of the Court that Edmund Pendleton, son
of Henry Pendleton Dec'ed, be bound (and is hereby boimd), unto Benj
Robinson, Clerk of this Court, to serve him the full end, and term of six
years and six months as an apprentice, to be brought up in the said office,
which time the said apprentice his master faithfully shall serve, accord-
ing to the usage and custom of apprentices. In consideration whereof
the said Benjamin Robinson doth agree, that he will use the utmost of
his endeavors to instruct his said apprentice in all things belonging to
a clerks office, and that he will provide for him sufficient meat, drink,
apparill, &c fitting for an apprentice during y's s'd time.
From the records of the Order Book.
A Copy.
Teste. Thomas W. Valentine, Deputy Clerk."
Nelson— Teac kle
Hand holding fleur-de-lys
Palman qui Meruit Ferati.
Thomas Nelson or Neylson of York Merchant of the Staple. Lord
Mayor of York 1454-14G5. His will proved March 22, 1184-5. One of
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the Lord Mayors direct decendants by Joan his wife was William of
Belfast Co. York. Married Elinor Oglethorpe of that place.
Their son William was of Bedale County, York. His son Robert
Nelson of Barnard's Inn London was buried at St. Dtmstans in the West,
December 21, 1641. Will proved 1642. He married Helen .
Their son Robert admitted to Grey's Inn March 11, 1630. Will proved
August 4, 1698. M. Mary the daughter of St. John Temple, Staunton
Bury, Kent & Sister of Sir Thomas Temple, Bart. Gov. of Nova Scotia.
Their only daughter, Margaret, married Rev. Thomas Teackle.
Rev. Thos. Teackle Margaret Nelson
John Teackle \ c tt i,
d, > Susanna Upshur
Burgess J
Thomas Teackle ..Eliz. Custis
Thomas Teackle 1735-1784 ]
Rev. Soldier, brother of j Elizabeth Upshur
Severn 1756 J
John Teackle Ann Stockley Upshur
Lavinia Teackle Wm. Graham of Ireland
Wm. Hamilton Graham Isabella Brown
Elizabeth Graham Wm. H. Whitridge
A very interesting old wallet was found in the papers of the late Severn
Teackle Waters decendant of Severn son of Thos^ containing the births
& deaths of his children in Thos. (1711-1769) handwriting. It is now
owned by a great-grand-daughter, Mrs. Giflfin of Baltimore, also a very
interesting record of Severn Teackle's Revolutionary record.
If you so desire I know she would send you copies.
Mrs. W. H. W., Baltimore.
Two Students from Virginia at the University of Edinburgh; with
a note regarding early botanical dissertations by Virginians at the
University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. James Jones of Nottoway County, member of the Virginia Council
of State and member of Congress, [1819-1823], was a graduate, in med-
icine, of the University of Edinburgh, 1796. See his Disputatio Medica
Granguralis de Tetano, Edinburgh, 1796 [Library of Hampden Sidney
College]. This book of 50 pages is dedicated to Dr. George Brown of
Baltimore, and Dr. John Patterson of Virginia. Dr. Jones was a grad-
uate of Hampden Sidney College, 1791.
Dr. David Floumoy of Prince Edward County, (probably a son of
Thomas Floumoy, See Magazine II, 200), was a student at the Univer-
sity of Edinburgh before 1800, as appears from a note book kept by him.
This book came into the possession of the celebrated Dr. John Peter
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Mettauer of Prince Edward County, and passed from his library to that
of the late Dr. J. D. Eggleston, whose son, the Hon. J. D. Eggleston,
formerly Superintendent of Public Instruction, now owns the book, as
well as very many other valuable books from the library of Dr. Mettauer.
In this connection, it is of interest to recall the names of certain Vir-
ginians who about 1800 submitted dissertations on botanical subjects for
the doctor's degree at the University of Pennsylvania, under the elder
Barton. Dr. Miller printed a list of such dissertations in his Retro-
spect OF THE Eighteenth Century, New York, 1803, I, p. 511, on
the Kalmia Latifolia and Angustifolia, by George Thomas of Vir-
ginia; on the Prunus Virginiana, by Charles Morris of Virginia; on the
Magnolia Glauca, by Thomas D. Price of Virginia; on the Bignonia
Catalpa, by Robert Holmes of Virginia; on the Polygala Senega,
['About 1740, Dr. Tennant of Virginia published a small work on the
Pleurisy, in which he brought into view the virtues of Seneka Snake root,
before unknown' — Miller, I, 318.], by Thomas Massie of Virginia; on
the Cornus Florida, and Sericea, and the Cinchona Officinalis, by
John M. Walker of Virginia.
Dr. Miller's list contains twelve items only, the authors representing
the States of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, and the
'Kingdom of Ireland' . Virginians therefore contributed half the number.
It may be remarked that the "Virginia Doctors" before 1825 in Phila-
delphia were often, if studious, also uproarious.
Of his list, Dr. Miller observes, "The authors of all the dissertations
above-mentioned, reside to the South of New York, excepting the stu-
dent from Ireland." The University of Pennsylvania naturally drew
its patronage from the region south of New York, but Dr. Miller, in
another part of his work (I, 317) brings out the fact that "during the
greater part of the century tmder review, and especially the earlier
periods of it, medical science was cultivated with most success in the
Middle and Southern States.*) A taste for researches in natural his-
tory also appeared, particularly the States of South Carolina, Virginia,
Pennsylvania and New York, long before a similar taste was formed to
the Eastward."
Alfred J. Morrison.
* — Dr. Miller (Professor in the Theological Seminary at Prince-
ton), quotes a letter (I, 491) to him from Bishop Madison, President of
William and Mary— "Dr. McClurg, of our City (Williamsburg), was
educated at this college. After completing the usual course here, he
studied physic at Edinburgh; was a favorite pupil of the celebrated
Black; and gained much applause by his treatise De Calore. Indeed, I
have lately seen in the Annals de Chimic, I think, for the year 1800, the
confession that Dr. McClurg first started the idea concerning heat,
which the French philosophers have since pursued with so much sue-
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Lord Effingham
1686 July 5 London Gazette p. 22
London, June 30. This day came into the River the Ship Barnaby
from Virginia, having on Board the Body of the Right Honourable the
Lady Howard of Eflfingham, who died in Virginia; And of her eldest
Daughter Mrs. Margaret Howard, who died in her Passage hither, both
which are to be Interred at Lyngfaeld in Surrey, among the Ancestors
of that Noble Family. This Ship left my Lord Howard very well re-
covered of his late Sickness.
Early Virginians in Maryland
(Communicated by Charles H. Browning, Ardmore, Pa.)
In his book, "Virginia Genealogies," (1891), Mr. Hayden, in his ac-
count of the Ball family, (pp. 52-3), in giving the issue of Col. William
Ball, the presumed immigrant of this family, states:
"1. Richard, d. infant, as he is not named in Col. B's will," (which
was dated 15 Oct. 1680).
Already, it has been sufficiently proved in this Magazine (Vol. VIII.
p. 80), that this "Richard Ball" did not die an infant, as Hayden sup-
posed, but lived to die in 1677, about three years before the date of his
father's will and decease, at what age is imknown, but it was some thirty
years after it was presumed that he "died an infant."
In addition to v^^hat has been recorded of this Richard Ball in this
Magazine, there are the following items from Maryland records, which
also concern other early Virginians.
Baltimore C. H. Record Office, Deed Bk. Lib. IR, No. PP, fo. 88.
"Know all men by these presents, that I, William Clapham, in ye
County of Lancaster, Virginia, have made, and constituted, ordained,
and appointed Mr. Thomas Todd, of Patapsco, Baltimore County, Prov-
ince of Maryland, my la'W'ful Attorney to be acknowledged either in
Baltimore County, or the Provincial Court of Maryland. In Witness, I
have hereunto sett my hand and Seal this 26th Day of May, 1670.
William Clapham.
Signed, sealed and Delivered in the presence of us,
Wm. Ball.
Richard Lunsfield.
"I, Jane Clapham, wife of the above named William Clapham, doe
hereby give, and grant my full and free assent and consent to the Saile
of ye above mentioned 500 acres of Land, and doe hereby constitute and
ordain the above named Mr. Thomas Todd to be my true and Lawful
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Attorney to acknowledge the same in any of the Courts above mentioned,
allowing and confirming what he shall doe. Jane Clapham.
(Witnessed as above, by Ball and Limsfield).
These two powers of attorney were part of the following deed of con-
veyance.
"Whereas, Walter Dickerson by his Ingagement, or condition, under
hand bearing Date 22d Day of Nov. 1639, doth bind and oblige himself,
his heirs and Executors, to take up 500 acres of land in Patapsco River,
in the Province of Md. and to erect two houses, or Edifices thereon, and
to deliver a Patent for the same soe taken up and built upon, to William
Clapham, Sen'r, or his assigns, at or before the first day of Feb. 1660,
as by the said Condition more at large appeareth.
"Now, for as much as ye sd Dickerson failed of Performance of the sd
Condition both in delivering a Patent and building ye sd Houses, which I,
the sd William Clapham, was utterly incapable to force him to in regard
of ye great distance of my residence from him, did therefore on ye 20th
Day of Oct. 1668, for a valuable consideration to me paid by RICHARD
BALL, of Patapsco afsd in ye Province of Maryland, assign and sett over
unto ye sd Richard Ball, his heirs and assigns forever the said Judgement,
or Condition with all my whole right title and claim to and in ye same,
with a Letter of Attorney bearing the same date, to sue for and recover
the sd 500 acres of Land, to his, the said Richard Ball's own proper use
and behoof, by virtue of which Letter of Attorney having treated with
ye said Dickerson hee ingaged himself by the first of month last past,
1669, to deliver to said Richard Ball a Patent for 500 acres of Land lying
in Patapsco River, aforesaid, which hath remained upon Record in the
sd Province since ye year * * * *
"Entered by said Dickerson, in the said Clapham's name, to be the
Land for satisfaction of ye said Condition, and then also to build ye said
Houses, but hath not yet performed the said promises, nor put into ac-
tual possession thereof. "Now, these presents thereof Witness, that I, the
sd WILLIAM CLAPHAM, doe here by from myself, my heirs and admin-
istrators, grant, bargain and sell and confirm unto the sd RICHARD
BALL, his heirs and assigns, forever, 500 acres of Land, with all Edi-
fices and priveleges thereunto appertaining, or belonging, and for the
better and more authentique confirmation of ye said Saile have ap-
pointed Mr. Thomas Todd of Patapsco, to be my true and Lawful At-
torney to act for me and in my name to acknowledge the same.
William Clapham."
William Clapham, Sr. and Jr., are noticed in this Magazine, in Vols.
IV. p. 81, V. pp. 159. 431, XII. p. 404, XIII, p. 129, showing that William
Clapham was a grantee for Va. land as early as 1635, and that he and
his son were tithables in Lancaster Co. and officers of the parish church,
1652, &c.
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Richard Ball died intestate in Maryland, in 1677, and his father. Col.
William Ball, administered on his estate, and after paying the debts,
what was left of the aforesaid 500 acres went to his only child, Hannah,
wife of Thomas Everest, also a Lancaster Co. man, who was"an evidence"
to the signature of Col. Wm. Ball affixed to his will, 5 Oct. 1680. The
Everests sold the tract, by deed dated 12 May 1681, to Nathaniel Hinch-
man, and removed into Calvart Co., where they lived at The Cliffs,
in 1683. The tract, known as "Clapham Point," lay in "the East side
of the Patapsco River," in Baltimore Co. Md. and in time was divided
and sold. Col. John Thomas, by indenture dated 6 Nov. 1700, sold 102
acres of it "for £140 of good Lawful money of England."
Further as to Mr. Hayden's "Ball" pedigree, (p. 65), he states that
Capt. Joseph Ball, of "Coan," No'd Co., will proved in 1721, m. Mary,
dau. of Col. Nicholas Spencer. This is an error. His wife was Mary,
dau. of Spencer Mottram. Mr. Hayden also was uncertain as to who was
the wife of Capt. George Ball, (p. 66), will proved in 1746. She wa*
Grace, dau. of Anthony Haynie, will proved in 1709, and his wife, Sarah,
dau. of Major John Harris, will proved in 1713. This Sarah m. 2d,
Francis Waddy, of No'd Co. And Capt. Ball's son Joseph (p. 67) m.
Hannah, dau. of Capt. William Haynie and his wife, Jane Waddy, andsaid
Joseph Ball's sister Sarah Ball, m. Christopher Dameron, of Wicomico,
will proved in 1764.
Entries in Read Bible
The Revd Thomas Read was bom on Gwyns Island in Virginia, 18th
March 1748 [he died 1826], and was married to Sarah Magruder Daugh-
ter of Zadok and Rachel Magruder 14th October 1779 — Sarah his wife
was bom 23d Jime 1755; and had Issue as in record of Births —
The Revd Thomas Read, is the son of Gwyn and Dorothy Read, who
was the daughter of the Revd Mr. Clack & Jane his wife, bom 24
August 1714, they had Issue —
1. Robert Read born 4 April 1734.
2. Lucy Read bom 26 Deer. 1735.
3. James Read bom 20 Mar. 1737.
4. Gwyn Read born 5 Apl. 1740.
5. Dorothy Read bom 11 Nov. 1742.
6. Jane Read bom 25 Nov. 1744.
7. John Read born 12 Mar. 1746.
8. Thomas Read bom 18 Mar. 1748.
9. Mary Read bom 27 May 1751.
10. Mildred Read bom 30 May 1753.
11. William Read bom 20 July 1755.
12. Francis Read bom 6 Augt. 1756.
13. William Read bom 25 Oct. 1758.
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The Revd Thomas Read's children —
1. John Magruder Read bom July 12th 1780.
2. Ann Read bom June 8th 1783.
3. Elizabeth Read bom Jany. 12th 1787.
4. Robert Read bom Apl. 22nd 1789.
5. Susanna Read bom July 4th 1791,
6. Thomas Read bom May 7th 1794.
7. James Read bora June 4th 1796.
Deaths of the above —
Ann Read died 14 June 1783.
Gwyn Read, Father of the Revd Thomas Read died June 1762 — Doro-
thy his wife May 1797.
Col. Zadok Magmder died 12 April 1811 aged 81. Rachel his wife
died 8th Jany 1807— The Father and mother of Sarah Read wife of the
Rev. Thomas Read.
Marriages —
John Magruder Read to Mary Ann Clark the 9 November 1802.
Susanna Read to Alexr. Suter April 20, 1815.
Robert Read to Jane Lynn Lackland Oct. 21st 1817.
[Gwyn Reade, who died Jime 1762, was son of Benjamin Reade and
grandson of Col. George Reade. See William and Mary Quarterly, XV,
117-123.]
Will of Christian Eppes — 1799.
In the name of God, Amen
I Christian Eppes of City Point, being in soxmd mind and perfect
Health, though knowing the uncertainty of Life; do ordain the folowing
to be, my last Will and Testament.
In. primis.
I give and Bequeath unto my loving son Archibald Eppes, one third
of my Slaves, with one half of my Stock of Horses, Cows, Hogs, and Sheep
also my Carriage and carriage Horses, together with all the Fumiture
of my House, Kitchen utensils, and plantation utensils, and everything
else that belongs to me, which shall not hereafter be expressly given
away, —
Item,
I give and bequeth unto my loving son Robertson Eppes, one third
of my Slaves, with the remaining half of my stock of Horses, Cattle, Hogs
and Sheep, —
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Item,
I give and bequeath unto my loving son William Eppes, the Remain-
ing third of my slaves, together with one Feather Bed, a Horse Bridle
and Saddle, — In case any one on my sons should die before the age of
Twenty one or without Will, — I then give and bequeath, that property,
which I left my deceased son to my two Remaining sons, and in case two
should die before the age of twenty one, or without wills, I then give and
bequeath all my property to my Surviving son. So that it is my full wish
and Meaning, that neither of my Daughters, shall have any part
of the above property, dtiring the Life of either one of my three Sons —
Item,
I give and bequeath unto my Loving Daughter Christian Gilliam
twenty five pounds to be laid out in some thing by which I may be Re-
membered, I also give and bequeth unto my Loving Daughter Polly
Eppes, one Negro girl, by name Tabby, together with twenty five pounds
to be laid out in a like manner — It is my wish and desire, that the five
Hundred and fifty potmds which I lent my son Richard Eppes, should be
paid by his heirs, to my son William, as a part of the Legacy left him by
his Father.
I likewise wish my Crops and all other property arising from the
Estate, and money due it, first to be appropriated to the payment of my
debts, and the ballance if any, to be divided equally between my Sons, —
To the full execution of this my last will and testament. I appoint my
two Loving Sons, Archibald Eppes, and Robertson Eppes, Together
with my Brother Archibald. In witness whereof, I have hereunto
Sign my Name, this tenth day of February in the year of our
Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and ninety nine
Christian Eppes.
It is my wish that the five Hundred and fifty pounds which I lent
my son Richard Eppes for the purpose of building, should not carry in-
terest untill my death and then for it to be appropriated in the way which
I have before directed, so that the principle and interest arising there-
from, shall by no means exceed the legacy left my son William Eppes by
his Father.
Marshall Notes
„, ,, „ , Ft. Smith, Ark., March 22, 1913.
Hon. Wm. M. Paxton,
Platte City, Mo.
My Dear Honored Sir: —
It is with profoimd respect and esteem that I greet you, my venerable
friend, after a long silence. You have passed the 94th mile post in life's
journey, and may you pass many more, is my prayer.
I made the trip of my life during Aug., Sept. & Oct. of last year, spend-
ing nine weeks in Kentucky and Virginia, searching State and County
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records, old family Bibles, tombstones &c. for genealogical data. I
am happy to state that I found a great deal of most valuable and inter-
esting data, relating to several families, among them, the Marshalls of
Henry Co., Ky. Soon after my return home I was taken down sick and
have not been able to get to my office now for several months. Am
slowly improving now and hope to get out as soon as the weather turns
warm.
There were two William Marshalls who lived and died in Henry
County, Ky. at an early day, one the Rev. Wm. Marshall, whose will
you give a partial copy of at pp. 33-34 of your Marshall Family. I made
a full copy of this will, dated Dec. 18, 1806, probated at New Castle
Dec. Term of Co. Court, 1809. My copy I made from the original will.
The other William Marshall lived and died at "Fairhope," (name of
residence) on his 1,000 acre survey on Little Kentucky, and he was the
ancestor of the wife of Col. R. C. Anderson, Judge Wm. S. Pryor, who
will be 88 years old on April 1st. next, Mrs. Wiley of Fresno, Cal., who
has the wonderful old Marshall Bible, my nephew, Arthur Pryor Strother,
et, al. This Wm. Marshall died intestate in 1810; the appraisers were
sworn by "W. Webb," Justice of the Peace, Aug. 25, 1810; see Will Book 1
p. 240. His son, John Marshall, was appointed administrator and filed his
inventory, of date Sept. 3, 1810, which was ordered recorded at Sept.
Term 1810, see p. 241. Report of sale of date Oct. 25, 1810, approved at
Dec. Term 1810, id. pp. 255-256, id. pp. 304 to 308 is settlement of John
Marshall Admr. Est. of William Marshall, Deed. Among the items are
the following: "For clothing bought for Lucy Marshall at her father's
funeral 16.673^." "Paid to James John for making coffin for said Lucy
Marshall 11.00."
This settlement was filed at May Court 1812.
From Deed Book 4. p. 504, I abstracted the following:
"We William Middleton, David White, Jun, & Isham Henderson ap-
pointed by virtue of a bond executed on — day of — 1813, arbitrators
to settle the personal estate of Wm. Marshall deed. & Lucy Marshall
deed, between the heirs and representatives of said decedents John
Marshall being one of the heirs — also former administrator of the Est.
of said William deceased & having met at the house of John Samuel in
New Castle on the 25th February 1813 & having made adjournments to
this day & having proceeded according to the conditions of said bond.
Do now finally award that the said John Marshall Admr. as aforesaid is
indebted to Richard C. Anderson in the right of his wife Sally the sum
of two hundred fifty seven dollars twenty seven cents, to William Webb
in right of his wife Polly the sum of seventy Dollars nine cents, to Anne
C. Samuell one hundred and fifteen dollars seventy nine cents, to Robert
Tompkins in right of his wife Frances Sixty seven dollars seventy nine
cents, & that the said Administrator make payments to the said heirs
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accordingly or execute his note to them respectively for the same."
Dated March 5th, 1813. Recorded March 6, 1813.
In deed Book 1 p. 115, is deed from William Marshall of Henry Co.
Ky. to Wm. Kinice, dated, Feby. 10, 1801, conveying 100 acres on Pat-
ton's creek (now in Trimble county.) His wife must have been dead
at this time.
In D. B. 4. 656, July 18, 1809, "Wm. Marshall of Henry Co. Ky." to
John Doag (?), 25 pounds conveys tract "on waters of Little Ky.
being part of said Marshall Survey of 1000 acre tract." 100 acres is
conveyed.
Recorded Aug. 7, 1809. (signed) "Wm. Marshall (seal)."
"Kentucky Patents in Virginia
State Land Oflfice, Book 23, p. 457, is patent to William Marshall, 3,
March, 1791, 1000 acres adjoining James Pattons 8400 acre survey, upon
Land Office Treasury Warrant No. 3352, issued 4 Mch 1780.
The marriage records of Henry County, Ky. show that John Marshall
(the Administrator above) married Milly Field April 11, 1813. She was
a descendant of Col. John Field, who was killed at Point Pleasant, Oct.
10, 1774. John Marshall, ("Capt. Jack") was drowne4 in the Ohio river
during a storm. He was the ancestor of Mrs. Wiley of Fresno, Cala.
but not of my nephew, Arthur Pryor Strother, as you state in some of
your letters. He is a descendant of said John Marshall's sister, "Polly
Webb," who married William Webb, Jr. son of Wm. Webb, Sr., who
resided on lands adjoining said William Marshall, and the Wm. Webb.,
Jr. homestead is said to have been a part of the William Marshall 1000
acre survey. I found the old Wm. Webb, Sr. Bible in Lagrange, Ky.
& copied the family records therein, Wm. Webb, Sr. was b. Apl. 21, 1741.
Mary, his wife b. Mch. 14, 1749, married Dec. 7, 1769. "Will son of
William and Mary b. May 1, 1772." Wm. Webb, Sr. died June 15, 1827.
I visited the old William Marshall home, "Fairhope," in the edge of
Trimble coimty, Ky., which county was cut off from Henry and other
counties, in 1836. I ate dinner there with the present owner, Mr. James B.
Sibley, an old friend of mine. I was greatly surprised to find this old Mar-
shall home to be the identical old John Sibley place I visited over fifty
years ago, with my good old grandfather, Rev. George Strother, who was
bom in Culpeper coimty, Va., Feb. 14, 1776, and died in Trimble county,
Ky., July 30, 1864. I visited Mr. James B. Sibley and his sister there
in 1870 odd. After a splendid dinner, in company with Mr. James B.
and his elder brother, Mr. Leonard Sibley, I went to the old William
Marshall grave yard, east of the dwelling some 200 yards, and there
NOTES AND QUERIES. 331
examined the tombstones to the many graves, but unfortvinately there
was but one marble stone among them, and that is to the grave of "Polly
Webb," and reads as follows:
"Polly M.
Wife of
Wm. Webb
Died of Cholera
Aug. 25, 1850
in her 62 year
Prepare to follow me."
The grave yard is in the edge of a grove, and a large wild cherry tree
has grown up on the grave of Polly Webb and has pushed the stone over
considerably. All other graves were marked by native rough stones of
good size, but with no inscriptions on them. Mr. Leonard Sibley stated
to me, then and there, that he was present when the grave of Polly Webb
was dug, and saw her body put therein. That the negro man who dug
the grave was standing by him when the sled, bringing the remains to
the grave came near, gave an exclamation of fright and disappeared
in the woods.
When we returned to the house, Mr. James B. Sibley pointed out a
spot in the garden, just back of the dwelling, and remarked that, "Maj.
Anderson of Sumter fame, was bom on that spot; that a log house once
stood there, which was the original Marshall home, and that he had re-
moved a number of the foundation stones from that spot."
That wonderful old Marshall Bible now in the possession of Mrs. Mary
Marshall Wiley, of Fresno, California, gives the date of birth of Mary
(Polly) Marshall as follows: "Mary Marshall, b. Nov. 10, 1776, m.
William Webb." This entry and the tombstone inscription do not tally
by a good deal. This old Marshall-Sibley home is located on the north
side of the Little Kentucky Creek, about one and a half miles E. of N. of
Sulphur station, on the Louisville and Cincinnati Short Line, now oper-
ated by the Louisville and Nashville R. R.
Mr. John Sibley, the father of the above named James B. and Leonard
Sibley bought this Marshall place a few years after the death of Wm.
Marshall and lived there until his death, which occurred Aug. 14, 1877.
This William Marshall, and Samuel Pryor, (the grandfather of my
old friend and kinsman, Judge Wm. S. Pryor, of New Castle, Henry Co.,
Ky., who will be 88 years old on the 1st. day of next month, as above
stated,) were among the 12 jurors who were appointed by the County
Court of Henry County, Ky., to assess the damages to adjoining prop-
erty owners, by reason of the mill race, dam &c. of George Strother's
mill site on Com Creek, Henry county, Ky. The jury reported on Aug.
332 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE
24, 1802, that there were no damages to other property owners, as the
race and dam were on the lands belonging to said George Strother.
This George Strother was the writer's grandfather.
I trust this letter will be of interest to you, and will say that I could
give more of the Henry county, Ky. records, which would be of interest
to the direct descendants of this William Marshall, but will not mention
them now.
With kindest regards and great respect, I am
Sincerely yours,
Henry Strother.
Ft. Smith, Ark., March 10th, 1913.
County Clerk of Westmoreland County, Montross, Va.
Dear Sir:—
I desire to know from you who made the Marshall will, stated by Mr.
Wm. M. Paxton in his "Marshall Family" as of date 1st day of April,
1752, Probated May 26, 1752, with Benjamin Rollins, William Houston
& Augustine Smith, witnesses, "and which mentions the following
children: daughter, "Sarah Lovell," daughter, "Ann Smith," daughter,
"Lizzie Smith," wife "Elizabeth Marshall," son, "John," son, "Thomas,
son, "William," son, "Abraham," daughter, "Mary," daughter, "Peggy."
Mr. Henry Marmaduke, who recently examined records in your office,
reports this as the will of William Marshall, and from other source it is
reported to be the will of Thomas Marshall. Please settle this ques-
tion for me! Last Sept. I examined the record of the will of the above
widow, Elizabeth Marshall, of date April 17, 1779, proven May 17,1779,
recorded in Will Book "B." p. 287-9 in Culpeper C. H. "Abraham"
above is called "Markham," which was his correct name. I know
there is a Thomas Marshall will in your office of date, , probated,
May 31, 1704, but I am not after that will now.
It may be of interest to you to know that the above Henry Marmaduke
was a Lieutenant on the Merrimack in her fight with the Monitor, and
is about the last survivor of that crew. He is a son of Governor M. M.
Marmaduke, and a brother of General and Governor John S. Marmaduke
of Missouri. I have known him many years.
I hope some day to get to your county and himt up what Strother
records you may have in your office. Is the original will mentioned
above, in your office now, or were the old papers destroyed during Rev-
olutionary War, or Civil War?
Trusting that you may give me an early reply, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Henry Strother.
NOTES AND QUERIES. 333
(Note— On March 21st, 1913, I reed, from the Clerk the following,
written on the bottom of the original of this, which was returned to me.
The red ink marks &c above correspond to the Clerk's check marks &
words.
H. Strother.
'Dear Sir:—
The will above to which you have reference is neither the will of
Thomas nor of William Marshall, but is the will of John Marshall, and is
of the date and mentions the children as you have them stated above
and of which I have checked. We have no will on record of a William
Marshall but there is a will of Thomas Marshall, probated 1704 as stated
above in your letter.
Trusting this is satisfactory, I am.
Yours very truly,
(signed) "Albert Stuart, Dept. Clerk of the Circuit Court of
Westmoreland County, Virginia.
March 17, 1913."
(The above is a true copy of the reply of the Clerk, made by me this
March 21, 1913.)
Henry Strother.
PoiNDEXTER CORRECTION. In Vol. XX, 107, fot Triton, read Irion.
Sarah Poindexter born about 1744, married Aug. 12, 1765, Philip Jacob
Irion, and died October 27, 1814, leaving a large family. Most of her
descendants reside in Louisiana.
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BOOK REVIEWS
Chronicles of the Scx)tch-Irish SETn.EMENT in Virginia [Abstracts of
the Records of Augusta County, Virginia]. Extracts from the
original Court Records of Augusta County 1745-1800. By Lyman
Chalkley, Dean of the College of Law of Kentucky University,
late Judge of the Cotinty Court of Augusta Coimty, Virginia.
Published by Mary S. Lockwood, Honorary Vice-President Gen-
eral, National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution.
Complete in three volumes, Vol. IL Printers — The Common-
wealth Company, Rosslyn, Va. pp. 653, with full index.
All the good things which have been said about the first volume
of this series can be repeated and emphasized in regard to this one. It
includes abstracts of the papers filed in suits in the old district and cir-
cuit courts at Staunton, comprising depositions, wills, deeds, bills and
answers, &c, which contain so much information that, literally, it seems
there cannot be a name between the Potomac and the North Carolina
line, the Blue Ridge and the Ohio, which is not mentioned. As many
Eastern Virginia people owned land in the Western portion of the colony
and state, and as the jurisdiction of these courts extended to some of
the counties this side the mountains, there are also many references to
Eastern people. For instance, in 1804, there is a suit by Chiswell's
heirs, which gives the names of all of the descendants of Col. Jno. Chis-
well up to that date.
The genealogical interest is only a part of the value of the book.
It shows, in a way never shown before, the immense and long continued
emigration from Augusta and adjoining coimties to the West and South.
It gives details of many early settlements along the frontier, and shows
who built the forts and cabins. It illustrates a land-hunger such as has
only been revealed in later times when the United States has opened up
new areas for settlement. There are masses of information about the
soldiers of the French and Indian, and Revolutionary wars. Hundreds
of pages are given to the marriage records of Augusta, Rockbridge and
Rockingham. There are references to schools and school-masters on
pages 24, 28, 78, 124, 144, 160, 200, 208, 217, (two), 218, 221, 224, 226, 264,
268, and possibly others places.
On p. 258 is a very interesting extract from the will of Dr. James
Hopkins of Amherst Co., who, in 1803, made what was probably the first
bequest of its kind in Virginia; and who left property to found a small
hospital for the treatment of consumption, cancer and venereal disease.
Only an examination of the book itself can give a proper idea of the va-
riety and value of its contents.
BOOK REVIEWS. 335
There are probably, of course, errors in transcription or printing,
but one which has been noted is of interest. The Richmond County
home of John Monroe, a kinsman of the President, is printed Fanlis. It
should be Foulis, showing that the Virginia family remembered the old
home in Scotland.
As was the case with the previous volume the index is very good.
Mrs. Lockwood's address is The Columbia, Washington, D. C.
Portraits of Patrick Henry. By Charles Henry Hart, Philadelphia,
1913. Reprint from Proceedings of the Numismatic and Anti-
quarian Society of Philadelphia, pp. 5, with engravings of the
Thomas Sully portrait and Lawrence Sully miniature.
In the paper here printed Mr. Hart studies the two portraits of
Patrick Henry, pronovinces against the accuracy of the well-known por-
trait by Thomas Sully, formerly owned by Mr. W. W. Henry of this city,
and attributes high value to the miniature, imtil recently the property of
Mr. J. Syme Fleming, also of this city. Mr. Hart discovered that the
miniature was by Lawrence Sully and was painted in 1795.
Virginia and the Independence of Texas. By James E. Winston.
Reprint from the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, January,
1913, pp. 7.
Professor Winston briefly but interestingly describes the part
taken by Virginians in securing the independence of Texas. Besides
such leaders as Austin, Houston and Archer, there were many other
Virginians who did honorable and useful service.
Carlyle Family and Descendants of John and Sarah (Fairfax) Car-
lyle. The Carlyle House and its Associations. By Richard
Henry Spencer, Richmond, Va. Whittet and Shepperson, 1910,
pp. 58, with 14 illustrations.
Mr. Spencer has given a carefully prepared and interesting account
of the Carlyle family in Scotland, of their descendant, John Carlyle, of
Alexandria, Va., and of the few old houses still standing in that City,
which he built, and which is noted as having been the scene of the con-
ference at which Braddock planned his unlucky campaign.
Literary Influences in Colonial Newspapers, 1704-1750. By Eliza-
beth Christine Cook, Ph.D., New York. Columbia University
Press, 1912. Lemcke & Buechner, New York, Agents, pp. 279,
with index.
A thesis for a doctorate in a college or vmiversity of good standing
is usually quite a worthy product of grubbing among "the sources" for
information in regard to a subject which the writer has previously known
little or nothing about. Often the investigations of the student produce
something of real value. They rarely do more, and the results are fre-
quently dreary reading even for the most interested.
336 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE
Not so with Miss Cook. She has taken a subject which evidently
appealed strongly to her and in regard to which she already had much
preparation.
From Boston to Charleston all of; the Colonial newspapers prior
to 1750 have been carefully studied and the various literary influences
shown are noted. The result is a book which is not only very instructive,
but which will prove most attractive to all interested in English litera-
ture and its influence in the Colonies. It is a delightful book.
The author treats, in separate chapters, of The New England
CouRANT, The New England Weekly Journal, Bradford's American
Mercury, The Pennsylvania Gazette, the war between Bradford's
New York Gazette, and Zenger's New York Weekly Journal, The
Maryland Gazette, The Virginia Gazette, The South Carolina
Gazette and a good bibliography.
We in Virginia are, of course, most interested in the chapter on
our gazette. The author examines at length a series of essays in the
Virginia Gazette of 1738, entitled "The Monitor", and finds them to be
evidently by a Virginia author. As compared with other original essays
in the colonial press, she gives this series a high place. In concluding
this chapter, Miss Cook says: "The extant files, as we have seen, furnish
a variety of excellent prose and tolerable verse. Most of the prose could
stand comparison with the best pieces in the Pennsylvania Gazette
[Franklin's paper], while it would be a poor compliment to the verse
in the Virginia Gazette to compare it with that in any other Colonial
weekly except the Charleston paper."
The opinion of a scholarly New England woman in regard to sub-
jects of which she is so competent to speak must have much weight.
JOHN MARSHALL— An Address by Mary Newton Stanard. Read
before the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, at
the opening of John Marshall House, Thursday, March 27, 1913. To-
gether with a description of the House and its contents. Published by
the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. William
Ellis Jones's Sons, Inc., printers, Richmond, Va., 1913. pp. 48. Seven
full page illustrations.
For sale at the John Marshall House, Richmond, Virginia. Price,
Fifty Cents.
TTHE
Virginia Magazine
OF
HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.
Vol. XXI. OCTOBER, 1913. No. 4
VIRGINIA'S SOLDIERS IN THE REVOLUTION.
A Bibliography of Muster and Pay Rolls, Regimental
Histories, Etc., with Introductory and Explanatory
Notes by C. A. Flagg, Catalogue Division, and
W. O. Waters, Bibliography Division,
Library of Congress.
(Continued from Vol. XX, 281.)
SECTION IV.
Regiments of the Virginia State Line.
A note on the status of these regiments was given in the
introduction (Virginia Magazine, October, 1911, v. 19, p. 407).
These state regiments were regular troops of Virginia, raised
in addition to the regiments in the Continental line. As with
the latter, their service was not confined to the defence of the
commonwealth, but several of the state regiments rendered
aid to the general cause beyond the present boundaries of
Virginia.
338 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
In 1782 a Board of field officers, appointed by the Governor
of Virginia, made a report on the officers entitled to half-pay.
The list of state organizations included in their report (see
House report 191, 22d Congress, 1st session) is as follows:
First state regiment.
Second state regiment.
State artillery regiment (Marshall's).
State garrison regiment (Muter's).
Illinois dragoons (Rogers').
State cavalry regiment (Nelson's).
Illinois regiment (Clark's).
Crockett's regiment.
It seems proper to add to the list Taylor's Convention guards,
an organization raised and officered by the state at the request
of Congress, for the ptupose of guarding Burgoyne's troops
dtuing their residence in Virginia. Although on Continental
establishment, this was not a Continental Hne regiment, nor
can it be considered as belonging to the militia.
The two legions authorized by an act passed in June, 1781,
should also be included in the list of state regiments. These
were raised for defence of the state at the time of the British
invasion, and served until the close of the war.
First State Regiment, 1776-1782.
One of three regiments authorized by the General Assembly in Decem-
ber, 1776. Field officers for the First regiment were elected by the
General Assembly, December 19-20, 1776. William Grayson was chosen
Colonel, but did not accept his commission and entered the Continental
service soon after Enlistments for the state regiments were slow, Governor
Henry reporting in March, 1777, that the quotas were not half full. In
June, 1777, Lieutenant-Colonel Haynes Morgan was chosen by the General
Assembly to succeed Colonel Grayson. In July, 1777, the First regiment'
commanded by Colonel George Gibson, was on the march to join General
Washington. Colonel Gibson had been elected colonel of the Third reg-
iment the previous month, and the reason of his transfer to the First
regiment is not clear. It would appear, however, from the Journal of
the House of Delegates, November 28, 1777, that Colonel Morgan had
been placed in command of all the state infantry. By act of the General
Assembly, passed in January, 1778, it was directed that the First state
Virginia's soldiers in the revolution. 339
regiment, "now in Continental service, be continued in the said service
instead of the Ninth Virginia regiment, made prisoners by the enemy
in the battle of Germantown." Colonel Gibson's regiment served under
Washington till the close of the year 1779, when it was ordered to Virginia.
The details of its further service have not been ascertained. By act of
the General Assembly passed in January, 1782, it was directed that the
state troops be consolidated into one or more corps, with a corresponding
reduction in the number of officers. This reduction was eflFected and the
organization so formed (Dabney's legion) was placed under the command
of Colonel Charles Dabney, of the Second state regiment.
Field Officers.
Colonel. — William Grayson, December 19, 1776 — January, 1777.
Declined commission.
Haynes Morgan, Jime 5, 1777— July (1) 1777.
George Gibson, July (?) 1777— February (?) 1781. Resigned.
Lieutenant-Colonel. — Haynes Morgan, December 20, 1776 — June 5, 1777.
Promoted.
John Allsion, February, 1778— February, 1782.
Supernumerary, 1782.
Major.— Nathaniel Cocke, December 20, 1776— (?).
John Allison, 1777 (?)— February, 1778. Promoted.
Thomas Merriwether, February 2, 1778-1782. Supernumerary,
February or April, 1782.
Titles.
List of balances due the dead and deserted of the 1st Virginia
state regt., commanded by Col George Gibson, Sept. 16, 1777
to Jan. 1, 1778. (Gleanings of Virginia history. By W. F.
Boogher. Washington, D. C, 1903. p. 181-184).
Second State Regiment, 1776-1782.
Authorized by the General Assembly in December, 1776. Field
officers were elected by the Assembly, December 20, 1776. By act of
Assembly, passed in January, 1778, it was provided that such state troops
as had already been enlisted should be formed into a battalion of eight
companies and marched to join the Continental army. The act of Decem-
ber, 1776, authorized the enlistment of three regiments of state troops.
Officers were chosen for the Third regiment in December, 1776, and June,
1777. As we have found no later mention of the Third regiment, it seems
probable that its organization was abolished and that the men already
enlisted were incorporated with the Second regiment. This would
340 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
appear to be the intent of the act of January, 177S. The Second regiment
probably marched in May, 1778 to join Washington's army. It remained,
with the First state regiment in the Continental service till the close of
the campaign of 1779. In April and May, 1780, 280 men were discharged,
about 30 remaining for the war. The remnants of the state regiments
appear to have been collected by Colonel Charles Dabney in the summer
of 1781 and to have been imder his command at the siege of Yorktown.
A consolidation of all the state troops into one battalion was directed by
an act passed by the General Assembly in January', 1782. The state
troops were finally disbanded in April, 1783.
Field Officers.
Colonel. — James Dimcanson, December 20, 1776 — ?.
■^Gregory Smith, June, 1777—?.
William Brent, January 1, 779-1782. Supernu erary, April,
1782.
Lieutenant-Colonel. — Thomas Blackburn, December 20, 1776 — ? June
12 (?) 1777. Resigned.
William Brent, June 14, 1777— January 1, 1779.
Promoted.
Charles Dabney, 1778 (?)
Major.— William Brent, Jr., December 20, 1776— June 14, 1777. Pro-
moted.
John Lee, February 1, 1778-1782. Supernumerary, February or
April, 1782.
*Heitman.
Titles.
Revolutionary army orders for the main army under Wash-
ington, 1778-1779. (Virginia magazine of history and biog-
raphy, Apr. 1906— Apr. 1913. v. 13-21.)
From papers of Charles Dabney, lieutenant-colonel, Second
state regiment. Includes general, brigade and regimental
orders.
Third State Regiment, 1776-1778.
Authorized by the General Assembly in December, 1776. Field officers
were elected by the Assembly, December 20, 1776. In March, 1777,
Governor Henry reported that the three state regiments were about
half filled. By an act passed in January, 1778, the troops enlisted for the
Third state regiment were added to the Second state regiment, which
was sent to the North in May, 1778, to join the Continental army.
Virginia's soldiers in the revolution. 341
Field Officers.
Colonel. — Philip Love, December 20, 1776 — ? Did not accept com-
mission.
George Gibson, June 10, 1777— July (?) 1777. Appointed
Colonel of First state regiment.
Lieutenant-Colonel. — Gregory Smith, December 20, 1776 — ^June (?) 1779.
Appointed Colonel of Second state regiment.
Major. — Charles Dabney, December 20, 1776 — ? Later lieutenant-
colonel of Second Continental regiment till September, 1778. Lieu-
tenant-colonel of Second state regiment, 1778 (?) —
Artillery Regiment, 1777-1781?
The act authorizing this regiment was passed by the General Assembly
in Jime, 1777. The regiment was to consist of ten companies of 68 men
each, besides officers. Field officers were elected by the General Assem-
bly, November 15, 1777. Governor Henry reported the regiment not
yet nearly filled in May, 1778. In December, 1779, its strength was
about 350 men. It suffered severe losses at Camden in August, 1780.
The regiment returned to Virginia early in 1781, and most of the men
were discharged. Those that remained were mustered into Dabney's
legion after Comwallis' surrender.
Field Officers.
Colonel.— Thomas Marshall, November 15, 1777— February, 1781 ?
Appointed in 1781 commissioner to settle public accounts
in the West.
Lieutenant-Colonel.— George Muter, November 15, 1777—1780?
In command of Garrison regiment in 1780.
Elias Edmunds, April 16, 1780 — February or April,
1782. Supernumerary, February or April,
1782.
Major. — Thomas Mathews, November 15, 1777 — ?
John Mazarett. In command as major, February, 1781. In
list of "discriminated" officers, 1782.
State Cavalry Regiment, 1778-1781?
Formed under an act passed in May, 1779, which authorized the gov-
ernor and council to enlist as many troops of cavalry as should seem need-
ful to meet the emergency of the British invasion of that year. Four
troops were raised. An act passed in December, 1779 ordered that the
battalion be reduced to three troops, to be completed and retained in the
service of the state. Under Major Nelson's command, the organization
was ordered south in 1780 and was present at Camden . After Yorktown
the remnants of the corps appear to have been consolidated with other
state troops as Dabney's legion.
342 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Field Officer
Major-commandant. — John Nelson, June 24, 1779-1783?
Garrison Regiment, 1778 —
This regiment was authorized in Jxine, 1778. Its purpose was to gar-
rison the harbor fortifications of the state. It was to consist of eight
companies of 68 men each, with the usual officers. Service was to be for
three years. The regiment took part in the southern campaign of 1780
under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Porterfield. In January,
1781, the strength of the organization was 174. During this year it was
united to the remnants of the First and Second state regiments by order
of the Governor and Council. Under an act of Assembly of January,
1782, a second consolidation was effected of the remnants of the various
state organizations into a legion under Colonel Charles Dabney.
Field Officers.
Colonel. — George Muter, ? — Apr. 1, 1781. Appointed Commissioner
of the Virginia War Office, 1780.
Lieutenant-Colonel. — Charles Porterfield, August 14, 1779 — Jan. 10,
1781. Mortally wovmded at Camden, August
16, 1780; died January 10, 1781.
Major. — Charles Magill, ? — April 1, 1781. Supernumerary, April 1,
1781.
Alexander Dick, ?— December, ? 1782.
Illinois Regiment, 1778-1782(?)
This regiment was raised imder an act of Assembly passed in January,
1778, authorizing an expedition for the protection of the western frontiers.
George Rogers Clark was commissioned a lieutenant colonel of Virginia
militia by Governor Henry, and given secret instructions to raise seven
companies of fifty men each for the purpose of attacking the British post
of Kaskaskia. The expedition set out in May, 1778, with three companies.
After the capture of Kaskaskia Clark's force was increased by the en-
listment of a number of the French inhabitants. The regiment was
recruited from Virginia in the spring of 1779, when it numbered 350 men.
In August, 1780 it was reduced to 130 men. It was disbanded January 18,
1783.
Field Officers
Colonel.— George Rogers Clark, 1778-1781. Commissioned lieutenant
colonel in December, 1777; colonel in December, 177 8
and brigadier-general, January 22, 1781. Relieved o
command July 2, 1783.
Virginia's soldiers in the revolution. 343
Lieutenant-Colonel. — John Montgomery, Dec. 1778-1783.
Major. — Joseph Bowman, December 14, 1778 — August 15 (?) 1779. Died
in service August 17, 1779.
Thomas Quick, or Quirk, August 17, 1779-1782(?)
George Slaughter, 1778(?)-1780(?) Promoted to be lieutenant-
colonel. Became supernumerary, December, 1781.
William Lynn, or Linn, 1778(?)-1781. Killed by Indians.
*Walker Daniels.
•English. Conquest of the country northwest of the River Ohio. 1896.
Titles.
The Illinois regiment and the Northwestern Territory.
(Virginia magazine of history and biography, Oct. 1893. v. 1,
p. 127-141).
Includes roll of officers of Illinois regiment, Lieut. -Col. John
Montgomery, and Crockett's regiment, Lieut. -Col. Joseph
Crockett; also list of non-commissioned officers and soldiers,
Illinois regiment.
Soldiers in Capt. Joseph Bowman's and Capt. Leonard Helms
companies in Clark's Northwestern campaign, 1778. (Shen-
andoah Valley pioneers. T. K. Cartmell. [Winchester, Va.,
1909] p. 104).
Pay roll of Capt. Edward Worthington's company of cavalry,
stationed at the Illinois, under command of Col. George Rogers
Clark, commencing June 17, 1778 and ending June 1, 1779.
(William and Mary college quarterly historical magazine.
Oct. 1898. V. 7, p. 120-121).
The army led by Col. George Rogers Clark and his conquest
of the Illinois, 1778-9. A list of the officers, non-commissioned
officers and private soldiers constituting the "Illinois regiment
of volunteers" with memoranda of the land bounty granted to
each. (Publication no. 8 of the Illinois State historical library.
Transactions. Springfield, 111., 1904. p. 166-178).
344 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Appended: Capt. Charloville's volunteers; also A pay roll
of Capt. Joseph Bowman's company from 24 Jan. 1778.
A list of officers of the Illinois regiment, and of Crockett's
regiment, who have received land for their services. A list of
officers of the Illinois regiment who have not received lands for
revolutionary services. A list of non-commissioned officers
and soldiers of the Illinois regiment, and the western army,
under the command of General George Rogers Clark, who are
entitled to bounty in land. A list of Captain Francis Charlo-
ville's volunteers, entitled to two hundred acres of land each.
[Richmond, 1834?]
24p. 4". (Document no. 32, appended to Journal of Virginia
House of delegates, 1833-34.)
Prefixed is a report by J. H. Smith on the "Illinois claims."
Crocketts Regiment, 1780-1782.
This was a regiment authorized by act of Assembly passed in Decem-
ber, 1779, to be raised for the defence of the western limits of the state.
The act provided that the corps of infantry under the command of Colonel
[George] Slaughter should be attached to the new organization. Colonel
Joseph Crockett was commissioned to command the regiment, which
was ordered to reinforce Colonel George Rogers Clark at the West.
Crockett's command served about eighteen months under Clark in the
Northwest against the Indians and in the unsuccessful expedition against
Detroit.
Field Officers.
Lieutenant-Colonel. — Joseph Crockett, 1780 — January, 1782.
Major.— George Walls, 1781(?)-1783.
Illinois Troop Light Dragoons, 1779-1782 (?).
Authorized for service in Illinois by act of Assembly passed at the
session beginning in May, 1779. The act provided for a troop of thirty-
two men, to be officered by a captain, lieutenant and cornet. Lieutenant
John Rogers was commissioned captain of the troop, which marched to
join Colonel G. R. Clark in the fall of 1779. The troop appears to hav«
been in service till the close of the war.
Virginia's soldiers in the revolution. 345
Officers
Captain.— John Rogers, 1779-1782.
Lieutenant. — James Merriwether, 1779? — January 1, 1781. Entered
continental service, 1781.
Comet.— John Thurston, 1779(?)— ?
Titles.
The last pay abstract of a troop of light dragoons in the ser-
vice of the commonwealth of Virginia under the command of
Capt. John Rogers, Oct. 1, 1781-Feb. 14, 1782. (WiUiam and
Mary college quarterly historical magazine, Oct. 1899. v. 8,
p. 103-104).
With record of Rogers' services in the Revolution.
Convention Guards Regiment, 1778(?)-1781.
This was a regiment raised for guarding the British troops captured
at Saratoga, during their dentention in Virginia. In view of the pros-
pective transfer of the prisoners, the Virginia House of Delegates, on
December 19, 1778, passed a resolution empowering the governor to raise
a regiment of 600 men to act as a guard. On January 9, 1779, Congress
adopted a resolution providing that a battalion of 600 men, properly
officered, should be raised by the governor and council of Virginia for
the same purpose. Enlistment was to be for one year, on continental
establishment, the oJBicers to be appointed by the Virginia authorities.
The regiment appears to have served from January, 1779 to June 5, 1781,
when it was discharged.
Field Officers
Colonel.— Francis Taylor, March 5, 1779— June 15, 1781.
Lieutenant-Colonel.— Francis Taylor, December 24, 1778— March 5, 1779.
William Fontaine, March 5, 1779T-June 15, 1781-
Major.— William Fontaine, December 24, 1778— March 5, 1779.
John Roberts, March 5, 1779— May 1, 1781.
Spotswood's Legions, 1781-1783.
An act of Assembly passed in June, 1781, authorized the formation of
two legions, to consist each of six companies of infantry and one troop of
cavalry of 100 men each. These were to serve during the war, but ont
to take the field or do duty except in case of actual or threatened invasion.
Brigadier General Alexander Spotswood was placed in command of the
legions. They appear to have served from the summer of 1781 to
November 4, 1783, when they were disbanded by the governor.
346 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Field Officers of First Legion.
Lieutenant-Colonel commanding. — John Taylor, 1781 —
Major.— William Lindsay, 1781—
Robert Forsyth, 1781—
Field Officers of Second Legion.
Lieutenant-Colonel commanding. — Everard Meade, 1781-
Major.
THE RANDOLPH MANUSCRIPT, 347
THE RANDOLPH MANUSCRIPT.
Virginia Seventeenth Century Records
From the Original in the Collection of the Virginia Historical
Society
Commissions and Instructions to the Earl of Orkney for the
Government of Virginia
(Continued)
83. That we may be the better inform'd of the Trade of
our said Colony, You are to take especial Care that Due en-
terics be made in all Ports of our said Colony of all Goods and
Commodities their Species and Quantities Imported or Ex-
ported from thence, with the Names Burden and Guns of all
Ships Exporting and Importing the same, also the Names of
their Commanders and likewise expressing from and to what
Place the said Ships do come and go (a Copy whereof the Naval
Officer in each respective District is to furnish you with) and
you are to transmit the Same unto us Our Commissioners of
our Treasury or our high Treasurer for the time being, and to
our Commissioners for Trade and Plantations Quarterly, and
Duplicates thereof by the Next Conveyance.
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84. You are to take especial Care all Tobacco ship'd in
Virginia from what part soever do come they pay Virginia
Duties.
85. You are likewise to Examine what Rates and Duties
are Charged and Payable upon any Goods Imported and Ex-
ported within otir Colony of Virginia, whether of the Growth
or Manufacture of our said Colony or otherwise and to use
your best Endeavours for the Improvement of the Trade in
those Parts.
86. AND WHEREAS Orders have been given for the Com-
missionating of fit Persons to be Officers of our Admiralty and
Customs in our Several Plantations in America, and it is of
great importance to the Trade of this Kingdom, and to the wel-
fare of Our Plantations that illegal Trade be every where dis-
couraged, you are therefore to take especial Care that the Acts
of Trade and Navigation be duly put in execution, and in Order
thereunto you are to give Constant Protection and all due In-
couragement to the Officers of our Admiralty and Customs in
the Execution of their Respective Offices and Trusts.
87. AND WE FURTHER WILL AND REQUIRE You
to be aiding and Assisting unto such Persons as are or shall be
appointed by our Commissioners of Our Treasury to be Agent
in the West Indies or such other Agent as shall be appointed in
his Room in the discharge of his Office according to such In-
structions as he hath receiv'd from our Principal Commission-
ers for that Purpose, also for preventing Imbezelments and
Recovering of Prize Goods which may happen to be Imbezel'd
or Conceal'd, as well as the Execution of all Orders to him or
them directed in Relation to Prizes by any Court of Admiralty
Legally Established by Our Commissioners of our Admiralty in
our said Plantations And you are likewise to Transmit unto
Our Commissioners of our Treasury from time to time exact
Accounts of all Occiirances concerning Prizes that happen to
be brought into that our Colony of Virginia under your Govern-
ment in the Same Manner as you are required to do in other
Matters under your Care.
THE RANDOLPH MANUSCRIPT. 349
88. AND WHEREAS We have been Inform'd that the Fees
for the Condemnation of a Prize Ship in our Cotirts of Admiralty
in the Plantations are considerably greater than those demanded
on the like occasions in our High Court of Admiralty here,
And Whereas we are willing that our Subjects in the Planta-
tions shou'd have the same ease in the Obtaining Condemna-
tions of Prizes there as in this Kingdom. You are to Signifie
our Will and Pleasure to the Officers of our Admiralty Court in
Virginia that they do not presume to demand or Exact other
Fees than what are taken in this Kingdom which amotmt to
about Ten Pounds for the Condemnation of each Prize accord-
ing to the List of Fees herewith deliver 'd to you.
89. You are from time to time to give an x\ccount as before
directed what Strength your bordering Neighbors have be they
Indians or others, by Sea and Land, and of the Condition of their
Plantations and what Correspondence you do keep with them.
90. You shall take Especial Care that God Almighty be
devoutly and duly served throughout your Government, the
Book of Common Prayer as by Law established read each
Simday and Holy day and the Blessed Sacraments administer'd
according to the rites of the Church of England.
91. You shall be carefull that the Churches already built
there be well and Orderly kept, and that more be built as the
Colony shall by the Blessing of God be improved, and that be-
sides a Competent Maintenance to be Assign'd to the Ministers
of each Orthodox Church a convenient House be built at the
Common charge for each Minister and a competent Portion of
Glebe Assign'd him.
92. And You are to take Care that the Parishes be so
bounded and Settled as you shall find most convemient for the
accomplishing this good Work.
93. You are not to refer any Minister to any Ecclesiastical
Business in that our Colony without a Certificate from the
Right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop of London of
his being conformable to the Doctrine and Discipline of the
Church of England, and of a good Life and Conversation, and
if any Person preferr'd already to a Benefice shall appear to
you to give Scandal, cither by his Doctrine or Manners, you
350 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
are to use the proper and usual Means for removal of him and
to supply the Vacancy in such Manner as we have directed.
94. You are to give Order forthwith (if the same be not al-
ready done) that every Orthodox Minister within your Govern-
ment be One of the Vestry in his respective Parish, and that no
Vestry be held without him except in Case of Sickness, or that
after Notice of a Vestry Summon'd he omit to come.
95. You are to Enquire whether there be any Ministers
within your Government, who Preaches and Administers the
Sacraments in any Orthodox Church or Chappel without being
in due Orders, and to give an Account thereof to the said Lord
Bishop of London.
96. And to the end the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the
said Lord Bishop of London may take Place in that Our Colony
so far as conveniently may be. We do think fit that you give all
coimtenance and encouragement to the exercise of the same,
excepting only the Collating to Benefices, granting Licences
for Marriages and Probates of Wills, which we have reserved to
you our Governor or Commander in Chief of our said Colony
for the time being.
97. We do Further direct that no School Master be hence-
forth Permitted to come from this Kingdom and to keep School
within our said Colony without the Licence of the said Lord
Bishop of London, and that no other Person now there or that
Shall come from other Parts be admitted to keep School with-
out your Licence first Obtain'd.
98. And you are to take especial Care that a Table of Mar-
riages Establish'd by the Cannons of the Church of England be
hung up in every Orthodox Church, and duly observ'd & you are
to Endeavour to get a Law pass'd in the Assembly of that
Colony (if not already done) for the Strict Osbervation of the
said Table.
99. You are to take Care that Drunkenness and Debauch-
ery, Swearing and Blasphemy be discountenanced and Pun-
ished. And for the further Discountenance of Vice and en-
couragement of Vertue and good living (that by such Examples
the Infidels may be invited and desire to Partake of the Chris-
tian Religion) You are not to Admit any Person to Publick
THE RANDOLPH MANUSCRIPT. 351
Trusts and Employments in our said Colony whose ill fame
and Conversation may Occasion Scandal.
100. And you are to Suppress the Ingrossing of Commod-
itys as tending to the prejudice of that freedom which Trade and
Commerce ought to have and to Settle Such Orders and Regu-
lations therein with Advice of our said Coimcil as may be most
Acceptable to the generality of the Inhabitants.
101. And Upon Several Representations made concerning a
Trade with the Indian Natives, it has been thought fit to per-
mit a free Trade between our Subjects of Virginia and the In-
dians, and We being willing to continue the same Permission
to all our Subjects or that Colony, You are therefore to Signify
the same to the next Assembly, and to give them to understand
that out of our great Care for the Welfare of that Colony, We
have preferr'd the Particular Benefit of our Subjects before any
other Advantage that might accrue unto us by restraining that
Trade with the Indians, Whereof we expect they shoul'd have a
due Sence and provide by some Means for the better Support
of the Government.
102. You are to give all due Encouragement and Invita-
tion to Merchants and others who shall bring Trade to oiir
Colony or any way contribute to the Advantage thereof and in
Particular to the Royal Affrican Company.
103. And as we are willing to recommend unto the said
Company that the said Colony may have a constant and Suffi-
cient Supply of Merchantable Negroes at Moderate Rates in
Money or Commodities so you are to take especial Care that
Payment be duly made & within a competent time according
to their Agreements.
104. And whereas the said Company have frequently great
Simis of Money owing to them in our Plantations in America,
they have been much hindered in the recovery of their Just
debts there, and discouraged in their Trade by the too fre-
quent Adjournments of Courts, and it being absolutely nec-
essary that all Obstructions in the Course of Justice be Ef-
fectually remov'd, You are to take Care that the Courts of
Justice be duly and frequently held in our Colony and Dominion
imder your Government, so that all our Subjects in the said
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Colony, and Particularly the Royal African Company may
enjoy the Benefit thereof, and not receive any undue hinderance
in the recovery of their Just Debts.
105. And you are to talce care that there be no Trading
from Virginia to any Place in Africa within the Charter of the
Royal African Company otherwise than prescribed by Law.
106. And we do further expressly Command and require
you to give unto us, & to our Commissioners for Trade & Plan-
tations an Account every half Year of what Number of Negroes
the said Colony is Supply 'd wdth, that is what Number by the
African Company, and what by Seperate Traders, and at what
rates Sold.
107. You are likewise from time to time to give unto us
and to our Commissioners for Trade and Plantations as afore-
said an Account of the Wants and Defects of our said Colony,
what are the Chief Products thereof, new Improvements are
made therein by the Industry of the Inhabitants or Planters, and
what further Improvements you conceive may be made, or
Advantages gain'd by Trade, & which way we may contribute
thereimto.
108. You are not to grant Commissions of Mark or Re-
prizal against any Prince or State or their Subjects in Amity
with us, to any Person whatsoever without our Special Com-
mand.
109. Whereas great Inconveniencies do happen by Mer-
chants Ships and other Vessels in the Plantations wearing the
Colours bom by our Ships of War under Pretence of Com-
missions granted to them by the Governors of the said Planta-
tions, and that by Trading under those Colours not only
amongst our Own Subjects, but also those of other Princes and
States and committing divers Irregularities, they do very much
dishonour our Service, For prevention whereof you are to
oblige the Commanders of all such Ships to which you shall
grant Commissions to wear no other Jack than according to
the Sample here described, that is to say, such as is worn by our
Ships of War with a distinction of a White Escutcheon in the
middle thereof and that the said Mark of distinction may ex-
tend itself to one half of the Depth of the Jack and one third
of the Fly thereof.
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110. Our Will and Pleasure is That Appeals be permitted
to be made in Cases of Error from the Courts in our said Colony
unto you and our Council there in General Court Sc in Your
Absence from that our Colony to the Commander in Chief for
the time being, and the said Council in Civil Causes, where-
in such of our said Council as shall be at that time Judges of
the Court from whence such Appeals shall be made to You our
Governor and Council, or to the Commander in Chief for the
time being, and Council in General Court as aforesaid shall not
be admitted a Vote upon the said Appeal, but they may Never-
theless be present at the hearing thereof to give the reasons of
the Judgment given by them in the Cause wherein such Appeal
shall be made.
111. And Inasmuch as it may not be fit that Appeals be
too frequently and for too Small a Value brought unto Our
Governor and Council, as aforesaid. You shall therefore with
the Advice of our said Council propose a Law to be pass'd
wherein the Method and Limitation of Appeals unto Our Gov-
ernor and Council may be Settled and Restrain'd in such Man-
ner as shall be most Convenient and easy to Our Subjects in
Virginia.
112. And if eiiher Party shall not rest Satisfy 'd with the
Judgement of you or the Commander in Chief for the time
being & Coimcil as aforesaid, they may then Appeal unto Us
in Our Privy Council, provided the Sum or Value so appeal'd
for unto us do exceed £300 Sterl and that such Appeal be made
within one fortnight after Sentence and good Security given
by the Appellant that he will Effectually prosecute the same,
and Answer the Condemnation as also pay such Costs as. shall
be awarded by us in Case the Sentence of you the Governor or
Commander in Chief for the time being and Council be Affirmed,
& provided also that Execution be not Suspended by reason of
any such Appeal unto Us.
113. You are also to Permit Appeals unto Us in Council
in all Cases of Fines imposed for Misdemeanors, provided the
Fines so impos'd amount to, or Exceed the Value of £200 the
Appellant first giving good Security that he will Effectually
prosecute the same, and Answer the Condemnation of the
354 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Sentence by which such Fine was impos'd in Virginia in case
the said Sentence shall be coniirm'd.
114. You are for the better Administration of Justice to
Endeavour to get a Law pass'd (if not already done) wherein
shall be Set the Value of Men's Estates either in Goods or
Lands under which they shall not be capable of Serving as
Jurors.
115. You are to take Care that no Courts of Judicature be
adjourned but upon good Grounds, and whereas Complaint
hath been made that the Orders of Coiut are entered in the
Absence of the Magistrates and sometimes penn'd in Private
at the Magistrates House, you are to take care to prevent the
said abuses, and particiilarly that no Orders of any Court of
Judicature be enter'd or allow'd which shall not be first read
and approv'd of by the Magistrates in Open Coiirt, which Rule
you are in like manner to see observ'd with relation to the Pro-
ceedings in Our Council of Virginia and that all Orders there
made be first read and approved in Council before they are
enter'd in the Council Books.
116. You shall Endeavour to get a Law pass'd (if not al-
ready done) for the restraining of any Inhuman Severities
which by ill Masters or Overseers may be used towards their
Christian Servants, and their Slaves, and that Provision be
made therein that the Wilfull killing of Indians and Negroes
may be punish't with Death, and that a fit Penalty be impos'd
for the Maiming of them. And you are also with the Assistance
of the Council and Assembly to find out the best Means to
facilitate and encourage the Conversion of Negroes and Indians
to the Christian Religion.
117. And whereas an Agreement has been formerly made
with the Indians of Virginia and of New York for their Peace-
able living with Our Subjects and Submission to Our Govern-
ment, We do hereby approve the Same, and do require you
to endeavour as much as in you lyes that the said Agreement be
Punctually observ'd and renew'd if it shall be Necessary, as
conducing to the Welfare of our Colony under your Government.
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118. You are to Endeavour with the Assistance of our
Council to provide for the raising of Stocks and building Pub-
Hck Warehouses in convenient places for the employing of Poor
and indigent People.
119. You are to propose an Act to be pass'd in the Assembly
wherby the Creditors of Persons becoming Bankrupts in this
Kingdom and having Estates in Virginia may be reliev'd and
Satisfy'd for the Debts owing to them.
120. In Case of Distress of any other of our Plantations
You shall upon the Application of the Respective Governors
thereof to you, Assist them with what Aid the Condition of
Our Colony under Your Government can Spare.
121. You are to take Care by and with the Advice and As-
sistance of our Council that such Prisons there as want Repara-
tion be forthwith repair'd and put into and kept in such a
Condition as may Sufficiently Secure the Prisoners that are or
shall be there in Custody.
122. And for as much as we have thought fit for the Dignity
of the Government that a House be built for our Governor or
Commander in Chief, for defraying of which Expence a Levy
has been made, You are to hasten the Building and fitting up
such a House if not already done.
123. Our Will and Pleasure is, that you do take to your-
self as Governor Two Thousand Pounds Sterl. per Annum by
Quarterly Payments, and shall also Cause to be paid out of
the Revenues of our said Colony to the Councelors & other
Judges and Officers as well Civil as Military, and to the Mar-
shal, Clerk of the Assembly Gunner and Matrosses the Sev-
eral Salaries and allowances formerly paid, or such other reas-
onable Ones as you with Advice of Our Council there shall
think requisite a true Account whereof you shall from time to
time transmit unto the Commissioners of Our Treasury or Our
High Treasurer for the time being, and to Our Commissioners
for Trade and Plantations.
124. Provided always that you do not dispose of any Part
of our Quitrents, nor Suffer the same to be issued out upon any
Occasion untill upon your Certifying to us the Value of what
shall remain thereof from time to time in Our Treasury or be
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due Unto Us we shall Order the Same to be dispos'd of as we
shall find Occasion for our Service.
125. And for the better improving the Value of Our Quit-
rents, You are to take Care they be not only duly Collected,
but they be Sold every Year Openly by Inch of Candle to the
highest Bidder in the respective Coimty Courts, and that due
Notice be given of the time and Place of any such intended
Sale in such Manner as may make it most Publickly known
to all People a Competent time before hand.
126. Whereas upon considering the Entries of our Custom
house here in this Kingdom with the Payment of the two Shill-
ings per Hogsh<^ on Tobacco, and other Duties and Impositions
due unto us in Virginia there has been certain Information
given of great Frauds and Abuses both in Payment thereof by
Masters of Ships and others, and in the Collection by Our Ofifi-
cers. You are to use all Lawfull Means for the Prevention there-
of and for the Improvement of our said Revenues. And where-
as such Abuses cannot be committed without apparent Neg-
ligence of the Collectors or their connivance with the said
Masters of Ships and other Persons, You are to take great
Care with the Advice of Our Council in appointing fit and duly
Qualify 'd Persons for the Collecting of those duties and the
like for the Employment of Naval Officers.
127. You shall not commit the Care of those different Em-
ployments to One and the same Person, nor any of them unto
Persons much concern 'd in Trade who may be apt thereby to be
byassed from their respective Duties, nor unto the Members
of our said Council.
128. You shall take Care that each of the Persons appointed
by you to the said Employments (as well Naval Officers as
Collectors) be sworn to Execute faithfully and diligently their
Respective Offices in their Own Persons and not by Deputies
imless in Cases of Absolute Necessity, and that those Deputies
be then likewise sworn to the faithfiill and diligent execution
of their respective Offices. And that each of the said Officers
or their Deputies be required accordingly to give their Attend-
ance at such certain times and Places as you with the Advice
of our said Council shall direct.
THE RANDOLPH MANUSCRIPT. 357
129. You are Strictly to charge and Command them and
every of them in our Name to be more carefull and diHgent for
the future, under Penalty of the forfeiture of our respective
Places by your putting others in their Stead on the first offence,
and of our highest displeasure, and you are from time to time
to give Us Out Commissioners of our Treasury or high Treas-
urer for the time being, and to Our Commissioners for Trade
and Plantations a Particular Account of your Proceedings
therein, and of the Duties and Impositions Collected and dis-
pos'd of pursuant to former directions in that behalf
130. And whereas Complaints have been made of Several
undue Practices in the Office of Secretary or Register of that
Colony by the Clerks or other Persons employ'd therein. You
are to make Inspection into what has been the State and Man-
agement of the said Office, and Report to Us and to Our Com-
missioners for Trade and Plantations how you find the Same,
together with your opinion by what Methods any former Mis-
managements may for the future be best Prevented and in the
meanwhile to take all possible care that the Records of the
said Office be well and faithfully kept, and in Order theretmto
that not only the Secretary or Register himself but his Clerks
also be under Oath for the due Execution of the trust repos'd
in them, and that they accordingly give Sufficient Security
for their faithful performance.
131. Whereas Our Council of Virginia has formerly made
Complaints that the Lord Baltimore hath insisted on a pre-
tended Right to the whole River of Potomack, which did very
much discourage the Merchants and Masters of Ships trading
to that our Colony, You are to Assert our Rights in those
Parts, & to take care that the Trade of our Subjects be not
disturb 'd by the said pretences, or any other whatsoever.
132. Whereas We have been pleas'd by our Commission
to direct that in Case of your Death or Absence from our said
Colony, & in Case there be at that time no Person upon the
Place Commission 'd or appointed by us to be our Lieutenant
Governor or Commander in Chief the Eldest Councellor whose
Name is first placed in our Instructions to you, and who shall
be at the time of your Death or Absence residing within our
368 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
said Colony and Dominion of Virginia, shall take upon him
the Administration of the Government and Execute our said
Commission and Instructions and the Several Powers and
Authorities therein contain'd, in the manner thereby directed.
It is nevertheless Our Express Will and Pleasure that in such
Case the said President shall forbear to pass any Acts but
what are Immediately necessary for the Peace and Welfare of
our said Colony 'vv'ithout our Particular Order for that Purpose.
VIRGINIA IN 1677. 359
MRGINIA IN 1677.*
(Abstracts by W. N. Sainsbury, and copies in the McDonald
and De Jamette Papers, Virginia State Library.)
(Continued)
Bacon's Rebellion.
Petition of Nicholas Prynn.
March 19, 1676-7.
Master of the Richard and EUzabeth of London, riding in
James River to the Commissioners for Virginia —
For restitution of goods to the value of £265 sterlg: con-
signed by Alderman Booth & owners of said ship to Wm. Himt
their factor in Virginia, but seized by Lt. Col. Edward Hill,
under pretence of a warrant from the Governor. With Deposi-
tion annexed & letter of Colonel Thos. Ballard about same
(Abstract).
(Colonial Papers. 3 pp.)
The papers in the present instalment relate to the proceedings of the
Commissioners sent from England to suppress Bacon's Rebellion, and to
the quarrels with Governor Berkeley and the General Assembly, still
greatly under his influence. The Commissioners resided at Swann's
Point, the home of Col. Thomas Swann, on the south side of the river
near Jamestown. On one of their visits to Berkeley not long before he
sailed for England, they charged that they had been sent from Green
Spring, his residence, to the river bank in a coach driven by the Common
hangman. Governor and Lady Berkeley vehemently denied that they
had instigated this insult.
William Hartwell against whom several petitions were directed, was a
brother of Henry Hartwell, member of the Council, and was himself the
captain of Berkeley's body-guard during Bacon's Rebellion. He had
issue: (1) Henry, who died without issue; (2) William, who had an
only child, Mary, who married William Macon on Sept. 24, 1719; (3)
Mary, who married George Marable (high sheriff of James City Co.,
1695); (4) John, will proved in Surry Co., May 19, 1714, names his wife
Elizabeth (who afterwards married Stith Boiling, of Surry Co.), daughter
Elizabeth (who married Richard Cocke), Uncle Thomas Rogers, friend
Benjamin Howard, and cousins, John Drummond, George Marable, Jr,
and Henry Hartwell Marable.
360 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Swann's Point, March 21, 1676-7.
The Commiss'" of Virginia to Gov. Berkeley. Having
complied with the Commission of Oyer and Terminer "that the
"Country might well perceive we come not in the least to
"countenance but to try and condemn criminals" but cannot
comply with his letter desiring their further sitting on the same
occasion without neglect of more immediate service of his Maj.
Beg him to be mindful of emergent matters that have long been
before him and are yet unanswered and that he will make it his
present care to make out a particular account in writing of all
seizures, compositions fines and forfeitures which by the late
Rebellion devolve to the Crown without any diminution con-
cealment or embezzlement, of all Criminals im.peached con-
victed sentenced & executed as well before as since our arrival
in Virginia whereof a strict account will be exacted at his return
to England. 3 pp. (Abstract)
(Col. Entry Bk. No. 81. pp 125-7.)
1676-7, March ? to follow 21st.
Mem: by Sam Wiseman (Clerk to the Commiss'""* for
Virginia). That no answer was returned to the preceding
letter, neither did Sir W. Berkeley vouchsafe any more letters
to the Commiss'"^ till the occasion of the scandalous postilion —
The Commiss'"^ seeing Sir W. Berkeley would not comply with
their request caused Wiseman to draw up a Commission directed
to Lieut. Col. George Jordan and Major Theophilus Hone to
empower them to inquire into the estates and forfeitures of
Delinquents, which during the late Rebellion devolved to the
Crown, which was accordingly done and an account upon oath
taken of the same. (Abstract)
(Col. Entry Bk. No. 81. pp 128-9.)
Swann's Point, March 22, 1676-7.
The Commissioners for Virginia to Watkins — Are
now upon preparing their intended despatch for England by
Capt. Grantham next week, but take this opportunity to give
this general advice : that the face of things is much amended
since their arrival and they hope by degrees this poor Country
VIRGINIA IN 1677. 361
will recover its former peace and prosperity. There is a general
submission of the whole Colony and a joyful resentment of his
Maj. royal favour & compassion. (Abstract)
(Col. Entry Bk. No. 81 pp. 130-1.)
Swann's Point, March 25, 1676-7.
Col. Fra. Moryson to Lady Berkeley — In favour of Jones
a poor condemned person whose ignorance chiefly led him from
his allegiance and whose loyalty first brought him hither for
refuge — Does not find he was a bloody malicious rebel but
seduced by the artifice of others — Doubts not she will intercede
with the Gov"" in behalf of this poor unfortunate \\Tetch. (Ab
stract)
(Col. Entry Bk. No. 81. pp 178-9.)
March 25, 1677.
Lady Berkeley to Col. Moryson — There needs only his
opinion in the case of Jones to make the Governor consent to
it and he may be pleased to assure Jones' friends that Jones shall
be pardoned. (Abstract)
(Col. Entry Bk. No. 81. pp. 180-1.)
Swann's Point, James River, March 27, 1677.
The Commiss" for Virginia to Secretary Coventry —
Altho' the Assembly have sat a whole month they have not pro-
ceeded to answer the joint letter of the Commiss" — Have sat
together on the Commission of Oyer & Terminer both at the
trial & condemnation of seven or eight of the most notorious
criminals and openly advised to have them executed in their
own respective Counties — nor have they been wanting by all
means to make the people rightly apprehensive of his Maj.
most transcendant acts of favour and indulgence to his oppressed
and seduced subjects, which have been generally received with
suitable impressions of joy — Good & timely effects of his Maj.
Proclamation and other gracious acts of Mercy & Pardon —
Bacon's death was not pretence enough to frustrate & stifle
this Proclamation or suspend the punishment of it, so long as
Lawrence a Colonel and grand accomplice of Bacon's, a most
362 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
stubborn desperate & resolved Rebel (with others fit to head a
new faction) is still out, but rather that Berkeley might impose
on the ignorant his own terms and conditions as nevertheless
he has endeavoured to do — They have been mistaken or de-
ceived in their former character of Berkeley: he has since
appeared much contrary to his first professions — While Berkeley
continues Governor upon the place, things will never be put
into that peaceable posture and happy composure desired & by
the Comm" endeav** for it is his only artifice to persuade the
people that Col. Jeffreys is but his Deputy and that he shall
next year return Governor again — The General Grievances
like to come within a very narrow compass — that of the Salary
at this time tmder the Assembly's consiiltation and redress;
the main Grievances chiefly concern Fort money & other public
accounts and levies of this Colony proper also for redress of the
Assembly — Complain of Berkeleys studied evasions & his
interrupting and diverting the course of their proceedings and
the ill effects ; also of his illegal and arbitrary proceedings as to
seizures of estates of persons not convicted of any crime : they
are ptirsued every day with petitions & complaints of this
nattue. They declared their opinion in open cotirt that the
Country might perceive they did not combine with or connive
at such unwarrantable practises — Have heard he hath com-
pounded several treasons &c. for hogsheads of tobacco, cattle
&c — Hope this candid relation may not be mistaken at home as
if there were any feuds or differences between them & the
Governor — The gaol is now almost clear, the Governor having
condemned some and pardoned and transported others. Com-
plain, as pernicious to his Maj. interest, the dispersing of copies
of the King's private additional Instructions — a rebel having
publicly produced & pleaded in open Court a copy, which the
Gov"" called God to witness he had never let go out of his hands
or trunk. Readiness of the Indians to enter into a firm peace
with the Indians which they hope a short time will accomplish —
It will not be long before the Assembly rise when they will send
by the Deptford Ketch a more ample account of their proceed-
ings. 16pp. (Abstract)
(Col. Entry Bk. No. 81. pp. 132-147.)
VIRGINIA IN 1677. 363
March 27, 1677.
Queries for the learned Counsel at law to resolve
(sent with the Commissioners letter of this date to Secretary-
Coventry) Whether a person dying before conviction, his
estate be forfeited to the King — Whether persons estates con-
demned & executed by Court Martial and not b}^ a legal Jury
of twelve men be forfeited — Whether any seizure be legally
executed before conviction or attainder — Whether the estates
of banished or transported persons be liable to seizure and for-
feiture. (Abstract)
(Col. Entry Bk. No. 81. pp. 147-148.)
Swann's Point, March 27, 1677.
The Commiss" for Virginia to Secretary Coventry —
The occasion of their coming and present residence here, no
house being within four or five miles, invites a constant resort
of people from all parts of the Country upon public business
whom they are forced to entertain at no small expense — Beg
he will lay this their pressure before his Maj. so that a limited
salary may not include an unlimited stay and expense. 3pp.
(Abstract)
(Col. Entry Bk. No. 81. pp. 149-151.)
Swann's Point, James River, March 27, 1677.
Col. Herbert Jeffreys, Sir John Berry and Col. Francis
MoRYSON TO Secretary Sir Joseph Williamson — The Peoples
return to their obedience has been as general as their late dis-
loyal Revolt & had the Governor been as open handed as his
Maj. Acts of Mercy, the whole Country would now be composed
— Complaints against Gov. Berkeley for treating men as Delin-
quents before any due Attainder seizing their Estates and
marking their tobacco for his private use — How the Merchants
and Factors complain of their trade being retarded and their
ships being made Gaols for Rebels & Refugees without any
recompense. Have observed that those who call themselves
the loyal party are the only Chief Disturbers and Obstructors
of this calamitous Country, so that now nothing but a general
penal Act of Oblivion can make up these breaches. Advised
364 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
the hanging in chains in his own Country of one Arnold a hor-
rible resolved Rebel and Traitor — Have now no reason to fear
any new Mutiny, but have advised a stop to this rigid prosecu-
tion and the Assembly have also by Address voted the Governor
to forbear "and hold his hand from all future sanguinary pun-
ishments." (Abstract)
(Colonial Papers. 3pp.)
Swann's Point, March 27, 1677.
The Commissioners for Virginia to the Lord Treasurer
OF England — Send transcript of a joint letter to Sir W. Berke-
ley with his answer and copies of petitions relating to his Maj.
revenue which they thought it their duty to advertize him of,
referring him for further satisfaction to other letters which Mr.
Watkins will communicate to his Lordship. (Abstract)
(Col. Entry Bk. No. 8L pp. 186-7.)
Swann's Point, March 27, 1677.
CoL. Francis Moryson to Mr. Cooke — The Commiss"
doubt not but matters will be shortly composed to his Maj.
satisfaction if Sir W. Berkeley will please but with freedom to
permit his Maj. Acts of Grace to pass as his Maj. royally
intended them — To acquaint Sec Coventry how he has managed
that affair he left Moryson to acquaint the Country with : his
Royal Highness' promise that the two Patents shall be taken
in and vacated without any charge to the Country which he has
made known to the Assembly — His gratitude for being joined
with his worthy & generous fellow Commiss" a fitter person
than Jeffreys would not have been found to quel this Rebellion :
Sir John Berry of unbiassed principles, prudent conduct and
unwearied industry for the service — Protestations of his own
sincerity as an Agent and in his present character. The strait-
ness of his salary and fortune; desires Sec Coventry's exertions
in his behalf. 8pp. (Abstract.)
(Col. Entry Bk. No. 81. pp. 160-167.)
VIRGINIA IN 1677. 365
March 27, 1677.
Col. Herbert Jeffreys, Sir John Berry and Col. Francis
MoRYSON TO Thos. Watkins — Directions as to public papers
sent for Secretary Coventry and the Lord Treasurer. The
Country in a peaceable quiet condition; all that obstructs it,
is the Governor's abiding upon the place and the fierceness of
those who call themselves the Loyal Party, which are not many
and among them not twenty eminent sufferers in Estate — Their
rapacious insolence exasperates the other party and their
importunate sollicitations to try & condemn the guilty party
"which indeed is little less than the whole Country" — The
necessity of a general Act of Oblivion which the Assembly will
hardly be brought to without His Maj. express injunctions
compel, as in the case in England. The general grievances so
few and trivial that but for the Governors contrariety they see
no further occasion to stay a fortnight. Have been forced to
urge again and again their Instructions for retrenching the
Great Salary of the Assembly — now reduced to 120 lbs. per
diem, the very lowest allowance the Burgesses can support their
charges under. The estates of tobacco, cattle &c. carried off
by the Gov'. — Bland executed this day at James Town — Fines
imposed by the Governor, detested by Jeffreys & his Officers.
(Abstract)
(Colonial Papers. 3pp.)
March 29, 1677.
Certificate of Governor Berkeley for the receipt of goods and
two servants consigned to Wm. Hunt in the Richard and Eliza-
beth, Capt. Nicholas Pryn, according to a BiU of Lading an-
nexed. (Abstract)
(Colonial Papers. 2 pp.)
Green Spring, April 2, 1677.
Major Robert Beverley, Clerk of the Assembly to
Thos. Ludwell and Col. Daniel Parke, Treasurers for Vir-
ginia— Directing them to honor and pay certain Bills as per
annexed list drawn upon them for satisfaction of the public
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debts, according to annexed Order of Assembly of 20th Feb-
ruary last. Also — List of Bills drawn by the Grand Assembly
of Virginia on Thos. Ludwell and are already paid by Garvin
Corbin, July 1677. Indorsed "Rec^^ June 1677." (Colonial
Papers. 3 pp.) Copies of the above are also entered in Col.
Entry Bk. No. 81. pp. 139-142. followed by an order of the
Privy thereon of 11 July 1677, which see. (Abstract.)
Swann's Point, April 5, 1677.
The Commissioners for Virginia to Secretary Coventry.
On Tuesday last the Assembly concluded ; only await on account
of the whole of their proceedings to send away the Deptford
Ketch (their final dispatch) — The Assembly has given Berke-
ley £500, but they find nothing done on his part in order to a
peace with the Indians. He gives no accotmt of his late seizures
as they desired & he at first promised, nor has he yet answered
in any one particiilar their instructions but now insists on seeing
their private power which they declined showing, finding him
so critical and captious at all advantages to himself. The
Council, the Assembly and People are and have been so over-
awed & biassed by the Gov'" that some Counties dare not bring
in their Grievances before Berkeley be gone — fear at last Col.
Jeffreys will be forced to send him home, for he is still as back-
ward as at first for ought they perceive — before the mists he by
all artifices casts before them can be cleared — The main business
of this letter by Capt. Morris is to give an account of his very
eminent sufferings and services — his ship has not only been a
receptacle for the loyal party but to the Rebels a prison — Col.
Jeffreys absent at the Camp at Middle Plantation with his
officers. 6pp. (Abstract)
(Col. Entry Bk. No. 81. pp. 182-187.)
April 11, 1677.
Petition of Edward Lloyd of James City County, Planter,
to his Maj. Commissioners — Against Capt'' Wm. Hartwell for
imprisoning him three weeks, during which time his house was
VIRGINIA IN 1677. 367
plundered by Gov. Berkeley's servants and petitioners wife
(great with child) so affrighted that she died — With the Mid-
wife's deposition & the oath of Lloyd. (Abstract)
(Colonial Papers. 3 pp.)
Swann's Point, James River, April 13, 1677.
Col. Herb. Jeffreys, Sir John Berry and Col. Francis
MoRYSON TO Secretary Sir Joseph Williamson — The Grand
Assembly lately risen from whom they were promised and
expected an ample account of their proceedings, but they have
returned home without giving any — Can only at present refer
him to Mr. Watkins. (Abstract)
(Colonial Papers. 1 p.)
James City, Virginia, April 13, 1677.
Wm. Sherwood to Secretary Sir Joseph Williamson —
Account of Governor Berkeley's persecutions since the writer's
return from England when he said before Colonel Parker, the
general cry of the Country was against the Governor and that
the Country would not be quiet so long as he continued Governor
and Ludwell, Secretary — Describes the peoples' grievances
against Gov. Berkeley and their over joy at his gomg hence —
Begs he may not have the writer's letters, for he is most malic-
ious against him — Points out the worth of the large testimony
of the Assembly to the prudence of Bericeley's government.
(Abstract.)
(Colonial Papers. 2 pp.)
April 14, 1677.
The Commissioners for Virginia to Mr. Watkins. To
confer with Capt. Middleton who has had a general knowledge
of occurrences here upon the place — more particularly in the
business of the patents — for it was he who very fortimately
and prudently discovered to them Lord Culpeper's design of
setting the same on foot again after his Royal Highness' com-
mands and his own professions to the contrary. 3 pp.
(Abstract)
(Col. Entry Bk. No. 81. pp. 205-207.)
368 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Swarm's Point, April 14, 1677.
Colonel Moryson to Lord Culpeper — In reference to the
patents which Moryson confesses himself somewhat stirprised
to find his Lordship was now for setting on foot again, the Com-
miss" having told the Country that the Duke of York was
pleased to promise the calling in and vacating those Grants
that were so prejudicial to this Country without any charge
to them. 3 pp. (Abstract)
(Col. Entry Bk. No. 81 pp. 201-204.)
April 20, 1677.
Petition of Thomas Bobby of James City County,
Planter, to his Maj. Commissioners for Virginia — Against
Hartwell for imprisoning him and forcing him to pay a com-
position of 500 lbs. of pork 200 lbs of Bacon and 100 lbs of butter
— ^With Deposition upon oath annexed and Mem. that it was
owned by Hartwell himself. (Abstract)
(Colonial Papers. 3 pp.)
April 20, 1677.
Petition of Thos. Glover of James City County, Planter
to his Maj. Commissioners for Virginia — Against Wm. Hartv/ell
for imprisoning him five weeks and forcing him to give a horse
for his discharge of the value of 1200 lbs of tobacco — Also,
Depositions of Thos. Glover and Francis Robinson thereon and
mem. that Hartwell owns what the pet."" alleges was by the
Governor's order. (Abstract)
(Colonial Papers. 4 pp.)
April 20, 1677.
Petition of Wm. Hoare of James City County, Planter,
to his Maj. Commissioners for Virginia — Against Hartwell for
detaining him prisoner ten days and taking from him his cattle,
hogs and other goods, and for demanding ten thousand pounds
of pork to save his life — Also Hoare's certificate to the truth of
the above and Mem. that Sir Wm. Berkeley demanded the
pork to save Hoare's life, confessed to be true by James Garey
the Governor's servant. (Abstract)
(Colonial Papers. 2 pp.)
VIRGINIA IN 1677. 369
April 20, 1677.
Petition of John Williams of James City County,
Planter, to his Maj. Commissioners for Virginia — Against
Hartwell for imprisoning him ten days and forcing him by hard
usage to a composition of two hogsheads of tobacco and six
barrels of Indian Com to the value of £16. sterling — With
Deposition on oath annexed and Mem. of Hartwells confession
that it was done by the Governor's order. (Abstract)
(Colonial Papers. 3 pp.)
April 21, 1677.
Colonel Moryson to Gov. Berkeley — They (the Com-
missi'*) intend waiting upon him tomorrow to take their fare-
well leave of him before he goes hence — In reference to the two
Patents they have so laboured to overthrow and the resolution
of the House of Burgesses to a letter of thanks which he hears
has been superseded by another letter wherein the matter of
thanks is omitted — Prays him to remember that he has twice
himself superseded these patents and the charge it has been to
this poor Country and now it may be had at so easy a price as
thanks and that Berkeley only is the Obstructor of this good
and royal Act "especially when so near relations as yours and
your Lady's are concerned." Shall expect his answer which
with this letter he shall send to the Duke of York. 4 pp.
(Abstract)
(Col. Entry Bk. No. 81. pp. 208-211.)
April 23, 1677.
The Commissioners for Virginia to Governor Sir
William Berkeley — Think they deserved better than to be
turned ofif by his Coach and the Common Hangman Postilion
which is an afifront not only against their Commission but
themselves as Gentlemen — Are resolved to make his Majesty
a Judge of this high indignity which they believe he well knew
and was purposely sent for, as a retainer to perform the Cere-
monies of yesterday. (Abstract)
(Colonial Papers. 1 p.)
370 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
April 23, 1677.
Governor Sir Wm. Berkeley to [the Commissioners for
Virginia?] Of this particular of the Postilions he is as inno-
cent as the blessed Angels themselves. But though God suffers
him to be accused he has in His mercy left him a Great Exemplar
to comfort him for he suffered His only Glorious Son to be
accused of what he was not guilty of and oiu* late blessed King
Charles the First was brought to his death by accusations he
was not in the least manner guilty of. They cannot be so
angry at this last misfortime as he is sorry for it — Never saw
the fellow's face but once before. Has sent the Negro to be
racked tortured or whipt till he confess how this dire misfortune
happened and hopes this will give them satisfaction. (Abstract)
(Colonial Papers. 1 p.)
April 23, 1677.
Lady F-Berkeley to the Commissioners for Virginia.
Explains that neither Sir William Berkeley or herself have the
least thought or knowledge who was their postilion and protests
in the presence of Almighty God that the Governor gave no
order for the coach. Has sent her coachman to be examined
to whom the writer gave her orders — Must say the Governor
is dealt more severely with than ever man of his quality and
character has been in the world — to think he could be guilty
of putting so vile an affront upon any person that has his Maj.
stamp and character to secure them of respect from any man
but a Bacon. (Abstract)
(Colonial Papers. 2 pp.)
April 23, 1677.
Mem. in the handwriting of Secretary Sir Joseph
Williamson — Ships lately arrived from Virginia bring news
that last summer and autumn proved extraordinarily hot and
the winter as violently cold and that a great distemper has from
thence arisen amongst the Inhabitants which has taken away
many — Lord Berkeley arrived at Chester on the 18th — his
VIRGINIA IN 1677. 371
reception &c. — due to a person of his merits and employments.
Attempt of the apprentices on the New Exchange to keep
this, St. George's Day, a holiday. (Abstract)
(Colonial Papers. 1 p.)
April 25, 1677.
Col. Moryson to Gov. Berkeley — Has so much charity
of his own as to believe his high and solemn protests and that
it was no more possible the Gov. should intend than ever his
Maj. Commiss" should deserve so great an indignity. In-
treats him to take Moryson's last letter into his second thoughts
seriously to consider its weighty contents, otherwise he must
be feign to write home on purpose to his Royal Highness whom
it so highly concerns as well as himself, "therefore good Sir take
once more my former letter in your hands and think it worthy
of a full and particular reply." Hopes the waters he sent will
give Berkeley great relief. 3 pp. (Abstract)
(Col. Entry Bk. No. 81. pp. 218-220.)
April 25, 1677.
Governor Berkeley to Colonel Moryson. Gives hearty
thanks for the tobacco and waters — Is so distracted with this
last dire misfortune that he scarce knows what he does or says,
tho' he is innocent — Has sent the Negro and desires he may be
examined to the quick. (Abstract)
(Colonial Papers. 1 p.)
Virginia, April 25, 1677.
Elizabeth Dudley & James Dudley, Thomas Dudley and
Wm. Dudley to James Gary living at the Dager in Watling
street. The distractions of this Colony by the wise carriage
of his Maj. Commissioners are most happily reconciled and
in a posture of quiet and peaceable settlement for the future.
Beg his assistance in relation to certain hogsheads of tobacco
seized from their deceased father unjustly by Sir Wm. Berkeley
& illegally converted to his own use. (Abstract)
(Colonial Papers. 2 pp.)
(To be Continued)
372 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
VIRGINIA GLEANINGS IN ENGLAND.
Communicated by Mr. Lothrop Withington, 30 Little Russell
Street, W. C. London, (including "Gleanings" by Mr. H. F.
Waters, not before printed.)
John Martin of Dublin, Merchant. Will 30 April 1760;
proved. Brother George Martin devised his lands in Mill-
town etc to trustees for my benefit. I have paid the sums to
children of Brother James Martin. To daughter Agnes Martin
£2000. To son Lewis Martin £500. To grandson George
Barclay £200. To Andrew Stewart in full satisfaction out of
my benefits under George Martins will £10 yearly out of my
estate in Virginia. To Caple Street Meeting £5. Lands of
MiUtown to eldest son George Martin and at his death to
Edmon Sexton Perry and James Ager the younger of Dublin
Esqrs in trust for his male heirs failing whom to second son
Samuel Martin and heirs male, in default third son Lewis Martin
and heirs male, then Eldest daughter Lucy Agar and heirs male.
To 2nd daughter Agnes Martin and heirs male and the right
heirs Lands in Virginia to 2 youngest sons Samuel and Lewis
with succession in default to daughter Lucy Agar and Agnes
Martin. Daughter Alicia Martin otherwise Campbell wife of
son George Martin entitled under Marriage settlement to rent
charges on lands in Virginia of £150 a year Irish currency.
Daughter Lucy Agar wife of James Agar Esq £2000 her portion
to be paid. Executors: sons George, Samuel and Lewis
Witnesses : Jas Shiel, Tho Leech, Thomas Fitzsimmons Codicil
15 October 1760. same witnesses. Lands in Kilcoskanl
charged with payment of rents to Ann Stewart widow and Jane
Benson widow.
Prerogative Court of Ireland
will Book; 1761, fo. 215.
VIRGINIA GLEANINGS IN ENGLAND. 373
[This John Martin, the testator of 1760, was certaroly Col. John Martin
of Virginia, to whom his brother, Dr. George Martin, of Dublin, be-
queathed an estate in 1746, (see this Magazine XXI, 249). It is
equally certain that he was the Col. John Martin who lived in Caroline
Co. in 1732, when Col. Byrd visited his house, and who was a Burgess
for that County. It will be seen from the will of Thomas Turner (This
Magazine XX, 439,) that Turner states he bought a tract of land in Caro-
line from "Col. John Martin and his son George." This was the land
sold in 1752 (see this Magazine XIII, 198) by "John and George Martin,
of the City of Bristol, merchants," through "John Martin, gent., of
Virginia," their attorney. Col. John Martin and his son George evidently
removed from Virginia to Bristol, where they became merchants. John
Martin of Virginia, their attorney, was no doubt another son of Col. Jno.
Martin, and was the Burgess for King William County, who died during
the session of 1756. It seems probable, as there is no mention of any
children of his in Col. Martins will, that John Martin, Jr., died without
issue. Of the daughters, Elizabeth married in 1742, Patrick Barclay,
of Louisa Co., Va., Lucy, the eldest daughter, married first Henry
Boyle, yovmgest son of Henry, first Earl of Shannon, and secondly, March
20, 1760, James Agar, of Co. Kilkenny, Ireland, who, in 1776 was created
Baron, and in 1781, Viscount Clifden. Lady Clifden died July 26, 1802.
The second surviving daughter, Agnes Martin, was unmarried at the date
of her father's will. Patty youngest daughter, married in 1756, Edmond
Sexton Perry, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons 1771-1785, and
in 1785 created Viscount Perry. She had doubtless already been pro-
vided for. The will of Lucia, Viscountess Clifden (bom Martin) was
proved in 1802 in the Prerogative Court of Dublin. That of George
Martin, of the City of Dublin, Esq., was proved in 1811. These would
probably give additional information in regard to the family.]
Leonard Bagge of Killbree, county Waterford, Esquire.
Will 1 August 1719; proved 8 December 1719. To my wife
Cicilia for life £500 and a bond of Andrew Bagge for £100 now
in hands of Matthew Jacob Esqr and Mr. Hercules Beer accord-
ing to marriage settlement on 4 October 1708, also £250. My
stock in Moned and Duftcarrick, Kilbree and New Aftane to
my children subject to following legacies. To mother
Mrs. Susanna Bagge £20 yearly. To William Connolly als
Mc James of Ardmore £1. 10s. yearly. I forgive Brother
Luke Bagge all he owes me and give him my partnership with
Mr. Barry Strongman of tithes in County Cork purchased
from Mr. John Pembrock of Dungarvan. I forgive my nephew
Joseph Conghlan what he owes me. To eldest daughter Mary
Bagge £400 as a marriage portion. To second daughter Ann
Bagge ditto. Wife now with child, if daughter ditto. Residue
to sons William and John. To my dear Brother ye reverand
Mr. John Bagge £500 provided he comes to Ireland and de-
mands it. Executors and Trustees: My Brother Revd Mr.
374 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
Jo: Bagge of Virginia, Brother Jeremy Coughlan of Lismore
Esq, Brother Luke Bagge of Clattahenny gen and nephew
Joseph Coughlan Esq Witnesses : Fran : Flaherty, Edwd Butter,
Jn Hely, Wm. Coughlan.
Prerogative Court of Ireland
Will Book 1718-20, fo. 225.
John Bagge, of Monea, county Waterford, gent. Will 14
April 1772; proved 11 December 1772. To be buried at Kil-
molish near my father and mother. To Roger Green of Youg-
hal county Cork merchant and Thomas Judge of Clerkstown,
county Waterford gent lands of Grange held from Earl of
Grandison and land of Monea held from Bishop of Waterford
also my sixth part of ' Monegarroff in County Tipperary. In
trust for my son John Bagge and heirs male. To daughter
Anna Bagge £800 above money left by her grandfather Wil-
liam Cooke. To daughter Cecilia Judge wife of Thomas Judge
£24 yearly. To John son of Roger Green £5 to his son James
£5. House in Cork to son To sister Ann Greahicks £5
yearly. To Mary Cox £5. Witnesses Franc Ellis, John
Walker, Edwd Smyth.
Prerogative Court of Ireland
Will Book 1772, fo. 12.
[Rev. John Bagge, brother of Leonard Bagge, was minister of St.
Anne's Parish, Essex Co.., Va., 1771-1726, when he died. He had a
nephew, Edmond Bagge, who also lived in Virginia, and died in Essex
Cotinty in 1734, leaving a son Robert. See this Magazine XII, 299,
300. The will which follows is that of a later member of the Irish family.
The will of Rev. John Bagge, of Virginia, which had first been recorded
in the Colony, was proved in Dublin in 1726.]
John Cooke of Youghall County Cork, Esq. Will 7 Feb-
ruary 1712; proved 4 March 1713. To be buried either in my
own burial place of Youghall Church or by my father in Church
yard of Affame. To my mother Cecilia Cooke my farm of
Graige county Waterford or £20 yearly. To wife Ann Cooke
houses in Youghall also my estate of Kilbrush and Kippane.
To son Thomas Cooke my dwelling house in Youghall and
£1000 in hands of Mr. James Tynt als Worth for which estate
VIRGINIA GLEANINGS IN ENGLAND. 375
of Dame Mabell Tynt and Harry Tynt Esq deceased stand
liable, failing him and his heirs if my daughter Mabell Cooke
als Harrison shall survive her now husband Henry Harrison
clerk and marry again then the issue to have reversion. Be-
quests to son Thomas according to provisions of marriage
settlement between me and his mother Margaret Tynt by deed
of 5 August 1687. Servant John Moore £5. House that Mr.
Welch and Mr. Robinson now live in to wife. Executors:
Wife Ann Cooke and son Thomas Cooke. Overseers: John
Walker of Youghall gent and Thomas Baker of Lismara gent.
Witnesses : Francis Boyse, David Crafford, He. Crotty.
P. C. Ireland. Prerogative
Will Book, 1713-15, fo. 80.
Thomas Cooke of Youghall, coimty Cork, gent. Will
proved 27 November 1750. To cousin Thomas Cooke of
Amasack in the Liberties of Youghall one third of lands of
Ballyhay Ardra in county Cork which belong to me by right of
my mother Margret Cooke otherwise Tynte To sister Mable
Harrison otherwise Cooke £20 a year. Residuary Legatee and
Executor : cousin Thomas Cooke. Witnesses : Samuel Luther,
George Mannix, Thomas Gimlett.
Prerogative Court Ireland
will Book, 1750-51, fo. 196.
John Cook of the parish of Over Wharton and County of
Stafford in the Colony of Virginia gent. Will 26 December
1732; proved 11 April 1733. To be buried as his executrix
thinks fit. To wife Elizabeth Cooke for life a plantation on
Potomack river side of 462 acres and 40 acres adjoining
and negroes Corkpegg and Charlott, at her decease to my son
Traverse Cooke, in default of issue to my 3 daughters Ann, Han-
nah and Million Land on Cedar River 400 acres to son Traverse.
1664 acres to 3 daughters Ann, Hannah and Millian. Negro
Slave Dublin to son Traverse. Slave Sarah to daughter Ann.
slave will to daughter Hannah, Slave Tomboy to daughter Mil-
lian. Money in Ireland to wife and children. Land : 1500 acres
on north side of the Bever dams to Samuel Timmions of Stafford
376 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.
County on payment of 1261 lbs of tobacco due to my estate.
Executrix: Wife Elizabeth. Overseers: Rev. Alexander Scott,
Mr. Rawleigh Traverse. Witnesses: Wm. Allison, Rawleigh
Travers, Nath. Smith, Robt Smith, Mary Row. Codicil 27 De-
cember 1732. Negro Slave Ann Versper to wife. Witnesses:
Simon Pearson, Wm Brent, Benj Brent, Rawleigh Travers.
Proved at Stafford Coimty Thomas Claiborne, C. Cur. William
Henry Terrett, clerk of Thomas Claiborne certifies copy. Wit-
nesses: Henry Washington, Chandler Fowke, as justices ac-
cording, witnesses: James Nicholson Jo. Gill junr, Robt.
Jackson.
Prerogative Court of Ireland
Will Book 1735, filed will.
[Though neither the will of John Cooke, of Youghall, nor that of his
son Thomas Cooke, of the same place, names the Virginia Cookes of
Stafford Co., it is evident that they belonged to the same family. John
Cooke, a native of Ireland, settled in Stafford County, Va., early in the
Eighteenth Century, and married Elizabeth, daughter of Raleigh Travers
of Stafford County, and his wife Hannah, daughter of Joseph Ball. She
was half sister of Mary Ball, mother of George Washington. Mrs.
Travers married secondly Simon Pearson, and in her will, proved Decem-
ber 13, 1748, names her daughter Elizabeth Cooke, and her grandchildren,
Travers and Hannah Cooke. John Cooke, of Stafford, died in 1732 and
his will was among the portions of the Stafford records destroyed by
Federal Soldiers during the Civil War; but a copy of his will was proved
in Dublin, from which the abstract given here was made. In this will he
refers to his money in Ireland. Besides several daughters, one bearing
the peculiar name. Million, which was derived from the Travers family,
he had one son, Travers Cooke of Stafford Coimty. The will of the lat-
ter, dated December 1759, and proved June 13, 1759, is of record in Staf-
ford. His legatees were his wife Mary, and his sons John and Mott.
He states there is "A large balance due me by my uncle Thomas Cooke,
of Youghall in the Kingdom of Ireland for the rents and profits of my
estate there." He directs that his sons should have as good an edu-
cation as his estate would afford. The inventory of his personal prop-
erty amounts to £947.14.4, and includes a set of Spectators at £1.8,
Tattlers at 14 shillings, two Guardians at 5 shillings, 4 prayer books at
£1.5, and a parcel of "old books" at 7 shillings 6 pence. Evidently the
appraisers were fond of the essayists. As Thomas Cooke of Youghall
died in 1750, without issue, it is probable that Travers Cooke's imcle
Thomas, was the "Cousin Thomas Cooke" who was the residuary
legatee of Thomas of Youghall. A proper examination of wills and
other records in Ireland would doubtless furnish a satiffactory pedigree.
There is a notice of the Cookes of Stafford in Hayden's Virginia Gene-
alogies, p. 300.]
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REVOLUTIONARY ARMY ORDERS
For the Main Anny Under Washington 1778-1779
(From the Originals in the Collection of the Virginia Histor-
ical Society)
(Continued)
D. A. O. Nov^ 8*^' 79
The Orders Given Yesterday Evening for the Division to
hold themselves in Readiness to march at the Shortest warn-
ing is not to interfair with the fatigue party, which are to be
Continued as usual. Such men as were sent back, to New
Jermantown as Shoe-makers are to be immediately ordered to
their Reg*^ or sent to the Hospital, if they Should be proper
Objects for it And not to be Continued any Longer with Mi
Taylor on any pretence whatever The Officers & Soldiers are
Requested to Run the Funnels of their Chimneys Something
higher to prevent Damage to the Tents. The picquet at
Havarstraugh Landing being too Distant to be Relieved daily
is to be Continued three days & to be furnished with pro-
vision accordingly. The Baron Stuben will be with the Di-
vision in a few days to make a Gen'l Inspection of the Different
Reg*« its Recommended to the officers of all Rank to pay im-
mediate attention to the mens Arms and Clothing, that we
may make as Good an appearance, as Can be Expected from
the present State of our Necessarys.
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The Extream driness of the weather has prevented many
mills from Grinding which has Occationed Considerable De-
lays in the Supplys of Flour, if an ample Supply of that Article
Does not Arive before the next Issuing Day, The Comissary
are to serve the Troops with half Allowance of Flour and make
up the Dififincy in Beef as nothing but Necessity occations this
alteration in the Rations, And it is Expected to Continue
but a few Days, The Comm'g officers Does not Intertain a
Doubt but it will be Chearfully acquiesed in by the Troops, a
mistake have prevented the Field Officers meeting today agree-
able to Yesterdays Orders They are Requested to meet at Gen'l
Woodfords Quarters at half past 9 Oclock.
The Honourable the Executed power of the State of Virg'a
having approved of the Recommendations of the following
Gentlemen to be Ensigns in Gen'l Woodfords Brigade —
The are hereb}^ Appointed as follows and are to be Obe3^ed
Accordingly Viz*
No. 1 Isaac Jefrys to the 5^^ Virg'a Reg*
2 Robert Cradox 11*^ Do
3 James Broadus 7*'^ Do
4 Wm Spencer 8**^ Do
Their Commissions will bear date from the 25*^ of last Sep-
tember and their Relative Rank to each other, having been
Determined by lot is to take place agreeable to the above ar-
rangem*
It being Represented that it v/ould be more agreeable to the
parties as well as the officers of the Different Reg*^ that M'
Peaton Powel lately appointed Ensign in the 2^^ Reg* Shoidd
be Transfered to the 7**^ Reg* And that M'' James Broadus
Should be Appointed to the 2^ Reg* in his place
The Alteration is to take place accordingly.
R. 0. Nov 8*^ 79
As Baron Stuben is soon to Inspect the line The Command-
ing officer hopes & Expects that Comm'g officers of Comp'ys
REVOLUTIONARY ARMY ORDERS. 379
will assidious in having the Clothing of their Several Com-
panies mended and put in the best Order our Situation will
admit of to afifect this all the Taylors are to be Exempted from
Other Duty.
The Gentlemen will allso be pertictdarly attentive to the
Arms & Accoutrements of their Respective Companies.
Jno Allison L* Colo
Commandant.
D. O. Havarstraugh Thursday Nov^ 9^^ 79
F. O. Major Stephenson
B. M. Croughan
The Commissarys are to Isue One days Rum to the whole
Division Except those on fatigue at Stoney point who Drew
Yesterday.
For PoHce Cap* Hamilton
For the Day Adj* Merewether
Picquet
inQd 1
Q'Qd 1
Fatigue 3
For 3 days fatigue 3
B. O. Havarstraugh Nov' 10*^ 79
F. O. Major Merewether
B. M. Mitchel
Several Roberry of a very alarming Nature have been Com-
mited in this neighbourhood by the Soldiers, accompanied by
the most abhored Abuse to the Inhabitants Which is Occa-
sioned by the men being permited to Stragle out of Camp in
the night. The Officers are desired to have their Rolls Called
at Different times of the night a Greeable to a former order and
to fall on the most Effectual Method the Can think of to
prevent this Abuse as well as to Detect those who are Con-
cerned in the late Robbery —
B. O. Nov' 10*'' 79
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The Brigadier is Exceedingly Sorry to find from the Gen'l
Complaint of the Inhabitants in the Vicinity of Camp that the
order heretofore Isued to prevent the Soldiers from Stragling
in the night has proved unefectual Scarce a farmer in the Neigh-
bourhood who has not been Robed & Insulted The Brigadier
Calls on the officers in Gen'l as they value their own Reputa-
tion and that of the Corps to Exert themselves in puting a
stop to these licentious practises, and orders in the most positive
terms that the Rools be Called Every Evening after Tatoo
beating, and that every Soldier absent without leave be sent
to the provost immediately after his Return & Report to the
Brigadier — PatroUers are likewise to be sent out by the B.
majors after Tattoo to Examin the Environs of Camp & to
take up Every Soldier Absent from his Reg*
For police Cap* Williams
For the Day Adj* Cary
D. A. O. Novemb-- 10
The fatigue partys imployed in making Fasheans &c are to
be discontinued
The Com'^ing officer is much obbliged to Cap* Hill for super-
intending these partys and Request the Cap* will fimiish him
with an a Exact Return of the number maid and a discripsion
of the different places wher they Lay.
D. O. Havrystraw Thursday Novemb 11*''
Field officer Colo Russell
B. M. Crawhom
As the fatigues are more inconsiderable Redussed the Brig-
gad in Spectors will fix upon proper Ground to have thir Brig-
gads out to Exersize Every Feare day at a 1 1 oclock when every
officer and Soldier not upon duty are to attend.
Each Briggad are to make out a Return of all the nesserrys
theay are deficant in from the Common serry of the milliterry
Stors to furnish their Conducttors with them a mediately that
they may be drawn as a large Supply Of thies Stores that are
REVOLUTIONARY ARMY ORDERS. 381
now ctim up for the last that will a rive for this Campain no
time is to be lost.
D. O. Havarstraugh Nov' 12*'' 79
F. O. Colo Gibson
B. M. Mitchel
Fatigue Colo Gwatkins
10 of the best Carpenters from Each Brigade are to be sent
Down to Stoney point this evening or Early to morrow morning
they are to be furnished with Some Ax's and Such Other Too s
as the D. Q. M. G. has in his possession — A Sub is to marclh
them Down, And Deliver them to the Engineer.
For Police Captain
For the Day Adj* Brown
S C P
Picqr2t 1
inG-^ 1
3 days fatigue 2
3 days Com"^ 1
1 weeks Com^
Patroling
Q' G" 1
D. O. Haverstraw November 13*i^ 1779
F. Officer Colo Brent
B. G. M. Crawhom
Piquet 1
Patroll
inG^ 1
Q' 2
G. O. H. Q. West point Nov' 13*'> 79
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